adj
Meaning 1
Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sulfur
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsʌl.fə/
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Northern-England: /ˈsʊl.fə/
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Scotland: /ˈsʌl.fəɹ/
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US: sŭl'fər
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US: /ˈsʌl.fɚ/
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adj
Meaning 2
Having a characteristic sulfur-like smell, reminiscent of rotten eggs.
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noun
Meaning 3
A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brimstone, devil's gold
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chalcogen
noun
Meaning 4
A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks.
The element symbolically associated with hellfire or damnation, or in alchemy, the fiery principle present in all things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brimstone, devil's gold
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chalcogen
noun
Meaning 5
A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 6
Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the sulfur-coloured species.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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verb
Meaning 7
To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 8
an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: S, sulphur, atomic number 16
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chemical element, element
Narrower terms: brimstone, native sulfur, native sulphur
verb
Meaning 9
treat with sulphur in order to preserve
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- These dried fruits are sulphured
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sulphur
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: process, treat
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin sulpur Latin sulfur Latin sulphur Anglo-Norman sulfrebor. Middle English sulphur English sulfur From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone.
Across languages
Translations
209 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: rikinkeltainen — colour
- French: soufre — colour
- Hungarian: kénsárga — colour
- Ido: sulfea — colour
- Italian: sulfureo — colour
- Japanese: 硫黄色の (iō-shoku no) — colour
- Korean: 유황색의 (yuhwangsaegui) — colour
- Afrikaans: swawel — element
- Afrikaans: swael — element
- Albanian: sulfur — element
- Southern Altai: кӱӱрт (küürt) — element
- Arabic: كِبْرِيت (kibrīt) — element
- Arabic: كبريت (kabrīt) — element
- Arabic: كَبريت (kabrīt) — element
- Armenian: ծծումբ (ccumb) — element
- Aromanian: scljifur — element
- Aromanian: teafi — element
- Assamese: গন্ধক (gondhok) — element
- Asturian: azufre — element
- Azerbaijani: kükürd — element
- Bashkir: көкөрт (kökört) — element
- Basque: sufre — element
- Belarusian: се́ра (sjéra) — element
- Bengali: গন্ধক (gondhok) — element
- Bilba: balilang — element
- Breton: soufr — element
- Buginese: belérang — element
- Bulgarian: ся́ра (sjára) — element
- Burmese: ကန့် (kan.) — element
- Catalan: sofre — element
- Chinese Mandarin: 硫 (liú) — element
- Chinese Mandarin: 硫黄 (liúhuáng) — element
- Choctaw: hituk lakna — element
- Chuvash: кӳкӗрт (kük̬ĕrt) — element
- Cornish: sulfur — element
- Cornish: loskven — element
- Crimean Tatar: kükürt — element
- Czech: síra — element
- Danish: svovl — element
- Dutch: zwavel — element
- Erzya: палыкандал (palïkandal) — element
- Esperanto: sulfuro — element
- Estonian: väävel — element
- Faroese: svávul — element
- Finnish: rikki — element
- French: soufre — element
- Middle French: soufre — element
- Old French: sulfre — element
- West-Frisian: swevel — element
- Friulian: solfar — element
- Galician: xofre — element
- Galician: enxofre — element
- Galician: xufre — element
- Galician: arxofre — element
- Georgian: გოგირდი (gogirdi) — element
- German: Schwefel — element
- Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌱𐌻𐍃 (swibls) — element
- Greek: θείο (theío) — element
- Ancient Greek: θεῖον (theîon) — element
- Gujarati: ગંધક (gandhak) — element
- Hebrew: גָּפְרִית (gofrít) — element
- Hindi: गन्धक (gandhak) — element
- Hungarian: kén — element
- Icelandic: brennisteinn — element
- Ido: sulfo — element
- Indonesian: belerang — element
- Indonesian: sulfur — element
- Ingrian: rikki — element
- Interlingua: sulfure — element
- Irish: sulfar — element
- Irish: ruibh — element
- Italian: zolfo — element
- Japanese: 硫黄 (iō) — element
- Javanese: ꦮ꧀ꦭꦶꦫꦁ (wlirang) — element
- Kashubian: sarka — element
- Kazakh: күкірт (kükırt) — element
- Khmer: ស្ពាន់ធ័រ (spŏən thɔə) — element
- Khün: ᨣ᩶ᩤ᩠ᨶ — element
- Khün: ᨾᩣ᩠ᨯ — element
- Korean: 황 (hwang) — element
- Korean: 석유황 (seogyuhwang) — element
- Korean: 유황 (yuhwang) — element
- Korean: 황아 (hwang'a) — element
- Central Kurdish: گۆگِرد (gogird) — element
- Northern Kurdish: kewkurd — element
- Northern Kurdish: kirkût — element
- Kyrgyz: күкүрт (kükürt) — element
- Lao: ກໍາມະຖັນ (kam ma than) — element
- Lao: ມາດ (māt) — element
- Latin: sulfur — element
- Latin: sulphur — element
- Latin: sulpur — element
- Latvian: sērs — element
- Lisu: ꓧꓪꓼ (xwɑ̱̀) — element
- Lithuanian: siera — element
- Low German: Swevel — element
- Low German: Svävel — element
- Lü: ᦙᦱᧆ (maad) — element
- Luxembourgish: Schwiefel — element
- Macedonian: сулфур (sulfur) — element
- Macedonian: ќуќур (ḱuḱur) — element
- Malagasy: solifara — element
- Malay: sulfur — element
- Malay: belerang — element
- Malayalam: ഗന്ധകം (gandhakaṁ) — element
- Malayalam: സൾഫർ (saḷphaṟ) — element
- Maltese: kubrit — element
- Manx: sulfur — element
- Māori: pungatara — element
- Māori: pūngāwhā — element
- Māori: ohaki — element
- Marathi: गंधक (gandhak) — element
- Central Melanau: melireng — element
- Middle English: sulphur — element
- Mongolian: хүхэр (xüxer) — element
- Navajo: łeetsoii — element
- Ngaju: barirang — element
- Norwegian Bokmål: svovel — element
- Norwegian Nynorsk: svovel — element
- Occitan: solpre — element
- Occitan: sofre — element
- Old Church Slavonic: жоупелъ (župelŭ) — element
- Old English: swefl — element
- Pashto: ګوګړ (gogǝ́ṛ) — element
- Pashto: سلفر (salfár) — element
- Persian: گوگرد (gugerd) — element
- Persian: کبریت (kebrit) — element
- Plautdietsch: Schwäwel — element
- Polish: siarka — element
- Portuguese: enxofre — element
- Punjabi: ਗੰਧਕ (gandhak) — element
- Romanian: sulf — element
- Romanian: pucioasă — element
- Russian: се́ра (séra) — element
- Sanskrit: गन्धक (gandhaka) — element
- Sardinian: súlfaru — element
- Sardinian: súlfuru — element
- Sardinian: súrfuru — element
- Scottish Gaelic: pronnasdail — element
- Scottish Gaelic: pronnasg — element
- Scottish Gaelic: pronnastan — element
- Serbo-Croatian: сумпор — element
- Serbo-Croatian: sumpor — element
- Shan: ၵၢၼ်ႉ (kâ̰an) — element
- Sicilian: sùrfuru — element
- Sicilian: suffuru — element
- Sinhalese: ගෙන්දගම් (gendagam) — element
- Sinhalese: සල්ෆර් (salfar) — element
- Slovak: síra — element
- Slovene: žveplo — element
- Spanish: azufre — element
- Sundanese: walirang — element
- Swahili: salfa — element
- Swahili: kiberiti — element
- Swedish: svavel — element
- Tae': balirang — element
- Tagalog: sangyawa — element
- Tagalog: asupre — element
- Tai Dam: ꪬꪸꪣꪎꪲꪉ — element
- Tajik: гӯгирд (gügird) — element
- Taliabu: walirang — element
- Tamil: கந்தகம் (kantakam) — element
- Tatar: күкерт (kükert) — element
- Tausug: maylang — element
- Ternate: walirang — element
- Tetum: baliran — element
- Thai: กํามะถัน (gam-má-tǎn) — element
- Thai: มาศ (mâat) — element
- Thai: ซัลเฟอร์ (sal-fə̂ə) — element
- Northern Thai: ᨾᩣ᩠ᨯ — element
- Tibetan: མུ་ཟི (mu zi) — element
- Turkish: kükürt — element
- Ottoman Turkish: كوكرد (kükürd) — element
- Ottoman Turkish: كبریت (kibrit) — element
- Turkmen: kükürt — element
- Ukrainian: сі́рка (sírka) — element
- Urdu: گندھک (gandhak) — element
- Urdu: کبریت (kibrīt) — element
- Uyghur: گۈڭگۈرت (günggürt) — element
- Uzbek: олтингугурт (oltingugurt) — element
- Uzbek: oltingugurt — element
- Vietnamese: lưu huỳnh — element
- Volapük: sulfin — element
- Welsh: sylffwr — element
- Wolio: walira — element
- Yakan: meylang — element
- Yiddish: שוועבל (shvebl) — element
- Yoruba: sọ́ọ́fọ̀ — element
- Yoruba: imí-ọjọ́ — element
- Yoruba: imí-òòrùn — element
- Yoruba: imí-òṣùmàrè — element
- Zhuang: vuengzcungq — element
- Arabic: كِبْرِيتِيّ (kibrītiyy) — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 硫黄色 — colour
- Georgian: გოგირდისფერი (gogirdisperi) — colour
- Ido: sulfeo — colour
- Japanese: 硫黄色 — colour
- Japanese: いおうしょく (iō-shoku) — colour
- Korean: 유황색 (yuhwangsaek) — colour
- Catalan: ensofrar — treat with sulfur
- Danish: svovle — treat with sulfur
- Finnish: rikittää — treat with sulfur
- Galician: enxofrar — treat with sulfur
- Ido: sulfizar — treat with sulfur
- Ido: sulfagar — treat with sulfur
- Italian: solforare — treat with sulfur
- Romanian: sulfurare — treat with sulfur
- Spanish: azufrar — treat with sulfur
- Swedish: svavla — treat with sulfur
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