snuff

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /snʌf/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /snɐf/
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• Northern-England: /snʊf/
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• rhymes with -ʌf
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• CMU ARPABET: S N AH1 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch snuffen (“to snuff, sniff, snuffle”). Related to Dutch snuiven (“to sniff”), Middle Low German snûve (“pose, head-cold”), German Schnupfen (“head-cold”). The noun is probably from Dutch snuf (“snuff”), an abbreviation of snuftabak, snuiftabak (“snuff”). Related to sniff (compare Dutch snuffen (“snuff”), German schnupf (“snuff”), French schnouff (“junk”)).

From Middle English snoffe, snuffe, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle Dutch snuf, snof (“snuff”), Dutch sneuvelen (“to die in battle”).

From Middle English snuffen, snoffen, from the noun (see Etymology 2 above).

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afar: siinó — fine-ground tobacco
• Arabic: نَشُوق (našūq) — fine-ground tobacco
• Armenian: քթախոտ (kʻtʻaxot) — fine-ground tobacco
• Azerbaijani: burunotu — fine-ground tobacco
• Bulgarian: енфие (enfie) — fine-ground tobacco
• Catalan: rapè — fine-ground tobacco
• Chinese Mandarin: 鼻煙 /鼻烟 (bíyān) — fine-ground tobacco
• Dutch: snuif — fine-ground tobacco
• Dutch: snuiftabak — fine-ground tobacco
• Finnish: nuuska — fine-ground tobacco
• French: tabac à priser — fine-ground tobacco
• French: snuff — fine-ground tobacco
• Georgian: ბურნუთი (burnuti) — fine-ground tobacco
• German: Schnupftabak — fine-ground tobacco
• Hungarian: burnót — fine-ground tobacco
• Hungarian: tubák — fine-ground tobacco
• Italian: tabacco da fiuto — fine-ground tobacco
• Japanese: かぎタバコ (kagi-tabako) — fine-ground tobacco
• Japanese: スナッフ (sunaffu) — fine-ground tobacco
• Japanese: 嗅ぎタバコ (kagitabako) — fine-ground tobacco
• Macedonian: бурмут (burmut) — fine-ground tobacco
• Navajo: nátʼoh yildeełí nííʼiiʼnił — fine-ground tobacco
• Norwegian Bokmål: snus — fine-ground tobacco
• Norwegian Nynorsk: snus — fine-ground tobacco
• Polish: tabaka — fine-ground tobacco
• Portuguese: rapé — fine-ground tobacco
• Quechua: sinq'ay — fine-ground tobacco
• Russian: ню́хательный таба́к (njúxatelʹnyj tabák) — fine-ground tobacco
• Russian: снафф (snaff) — fine-ground tobacco
• Scottish Gaelic: snaoisean — fine-ground tobacco
• Spanish: rapé — fine-ground tobacco
• Swedish: snus — fine-ground tobacco
• Telugu: ముక్కుపొడి (mukkupoḍi) — fine-ground tobacco
• Thai: ยานัตถุ์ (yaa-nát) — fine-ground tobacco
• Turkish: burun otu — fine-ground tobacco
• Turkish: enfiye — fine-ground tobacco
• Ottoman Turkish: بورون اوتی (burun otu) — fine-ground tobacco
• Ottoman Turkish: انفیه (enfiye) — fine-ground tobacco
• Ukrainian: таба́ка (tabáka) — fine-ground tobacco
• Ukrainian: поню́шка (ponjúška) — fine-ground tobacco
• Catalan: esmocar — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• Dutch: doven — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• French: éteindre — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• French: moucher — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• Italian: smoccolare — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• Norwegian: slukke — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• Occitan: amortir — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• Polish: gasić — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• Polish: zgasić — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• Scottish Gaelic: smàil — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• Spanish: apagar — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• Spanish: despabilar — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• Tagalog: tutugin — extinguish candle or oil-lamp
• Tagalog: magtutog — extinguish candle or oil-lamp