smolder

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• US: /ˈsmoʊldɚ/
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• rhymes with -əʊldə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S M OW1 L D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English smolderen (“to suffocate, stifle”), from Middle English smolder (“smoke, smoky vapour”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *smolōn (“to burn, glow, fume, smoulder”). Related to Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (> English smell).

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: smeul — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Belarusian: тлець (tljecʹ) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Bulgarian: тлея (tleja) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Chinese Mandarin: 陰燃 /阴燃 (yīnrán) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Chuvash: ӗн (ĕn) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Czech: doutnat — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Dutch: smeulen — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Esperanto: subbruli — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Esperanto: bruleti — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Finnish: kyteä — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• French: se consumer — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• French: couver — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• German: schwelen — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• German: glimmen — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Greek: σιγοκαίω (sigokaío) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Greek: υποκαίω (ypokaío) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Greek: καίω χωρίς φλόγα (kaío chorís flóga) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Ancient Greek: σμύχω (smúkhō) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Hungarian: parázslik — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Ido: bruletar — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Italian: ardere — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Japanese: 燻る (kusuburu) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Kashmiri: وُہُن (vuhun) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Kazakh: бықсу (byqsu) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Latvian: gruzdēt — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Māori: ponguru — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Māori: popō — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Māori: mohu — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Māori: torohū — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Occitan: sumir — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Occitan: coar — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Polish: tleć — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Polish: tlić się — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Portuguese: queimar/arder (sem chama) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Quechua: hapuy — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Russian: тлеть (tletʹ) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Scottish Gaelic: cnàmh-loisg — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Serbo-Croatian: tinjati — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Spanish: arder sin flama — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Swedish: pyra — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Ukrainian: тлі́ти (tlíty) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Ukrainian: же́вріти (žévrity) — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Volapük: smolön — to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
• Finnish: kyteä — to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion
• French: ronger son frein — to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion
• Greek: σιγοκαίω (sigokaío) — to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion
• Hungarian: parázslik — to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion
• Italian: covare — to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion
• Polish: gotować się — to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion
• Swedish: pyra — to show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion
• Hungarian: parázslik — to exist in a suppressed or hidden state
• Swedish: pyra — to exist in a suppressed or hidden state