varnish

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• /ˈvɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ/
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From Middle English vernisch, vernish, from Old French vernis, from Medieval Latin vernix, veronix, from Byzantine Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “Berenice”), a town in Cyrenaica, now called Benghazi.

154 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: llak — transparent paint
• Arabic: وَرْنِيش (warnīš) — transparent paint
• Armenian: լաք (lakʻ) — transparent paint
• Azerbaijani: lak — transparent paint
• Belarusian: лак (lak) — transparent paint
• Bengali: বার্নিশ (barniś) — transparent paint
• Bulgarian: лак (lak) — transparent paint
• Burmese: ဗားနစ် (ba:nac) — transparent paint
• Catalan: vernís — transparent paint
• Chinese Mandarin: 清漆 (qīngqī) — transparent paint
• Chinese Mandarin: 漆 (qī) — transparent paint
• Czech: lak — transparent paint
• Danish: fernis — transparent paint
• Danish: lak — transparent paint
• Esperanto: verniso — transparent paint
• Estonian: lakk — transparent paint
• Finnish: lakka — transparent paint
• Finnish: vernissa — transparent paint
• French: vernis — transparent paint
• Georgian: ლაკი (laḳi) — transparent paint
• German: Lack — transparent paint
• German: Firnis — transparent paint
• Hindi: वार्निश (vārniś) — transparent paint
• Hungarian: lakk — transparent paint
• Hungarian: politúr — transparent paint
• Hungarian: fénymáz — transparent paint
• Indonesian: pernis — transparent paint
• Ingrian: öljy — transparent paint
• Interlingua: vernisse — transparent paint
• Irish: vearnais — transparent paint
• Italian: vernice — transparent paint
• Japanese: ワニス (wanisu) — transparent paint
• Japanese: ニス (nisu) — transparent paint
• Japanese: 仮漆 (kashitsu) — transparent paint
• Kazakh: лак (lak) — transparent paint
• Korean: 니스 (niseu) — transparent paint
• Korean: 옻 (ot) — transparent paint
• Korean: 바니시 (banisi) — transparent paint
• Kyrgyz: лак (lak) — transparent paint
• Latvian: laka — transparent paint
• Lithuanian: lakas — transparent paint
• Malay: varnis — transparent paint
• Manx: lossanagh — transparent paint
• Manx: varnish — transparent paint
• Māori: wānihi — transparent paint
• Central Melanau: berenih — transparent paint
• Mokilese: parnij — transparent paint
• Mokilese: warnis — transparent paint
• Norwegian Bokmål: ferniss — transparent paint
• Norwegian Bokmål: lakk — transparent paint
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ferniss — transparent paint
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lakk — transparent paint
• Occitan: vernís — transparent paint
• Persian: ورنی (verni) — transparent paint
• Polish: lakier — transparent paint
• Portuguese: verniz — transparent paint
• Romanian: vernis — transparent paint
• Romanian: lac — transparent paint
• Russian: лак (lak) — transparent paint
• Serbo-Croatian: фи̏рна̄јз — transparent paint
• Serbo-Croatian: fȉrnājz — transparent paint
• Slovak: lak — transparent paint
• Slovene: lak — transparent paint
• Spanish: barniz — transparent paint
• Spanish: corladura — transparent paint
• Spanish: corla — transparent paint
• Swedish: lack — transparent paint
• Swedish: fernissa — transparent paint
• Tagalog: barnis — transparent paint
• Tagalog: alyamas — transparent paint
• Tajik: лак (lak) — transparent paint
• Thai: น้ํามันชักเงา — transparent paint
• Turkish: vernik — transparent paint
• Ottoman Turkish: ورنیك (vernik) — transparent paint
• Ottoman Turkish: روغن (revgan, rugan) — transparent paint
• Turkmen: lak — transparent paint
• Ukrainian: лак (lak) — transparent paint
• Uzbek: lak — transparent paint
• Venetan: vernize — transparent paint
• Vietnamese: sơn — transparent paint
• Vietnamese: véc ni — transparent paint
• Welsh: farnis — transparent paint
• Welsh: farnais — transparent paint
• Bulgarian: гланц (glanc) — anything resembling such a paint
• Danish: fernis — anything resembling such a paint
• Danish: lak — anything resembling such a paint
• Finnish: lakka — anything resembling such a paint
• German: Firnis — anything resembling such a paint
• Hungarian: kence — anything resembling such a paint
• Slovak: lesk — anything resembling such a paint
• Venetan: vernize — anything resembling such a paint
• Bulgarian: лустро (lustro) — a deceptively showy appearance
• Danish: fernis — a deceptively showy appearance
• Finnish: pintakiilto — a deceptively showy appearance
• Hungarian: máz — a deceptively showy appearance
• Portuguese: verniz — a deceptively showy appearance
• Azerbaijani: laklamaq — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Bulgarian: лакирам (lakiram) — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Catalan: envernissar — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Chinese Mandarin: 塗漆 /涂漆 (túqí) — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Esperanto: vernisi — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Finnish: lakata — intransitive: to apply varnish
• French: vernir — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Georgian: ლაქის წასმა (lakis c̣asma) — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Georgian: ლაკირება (laḳireba) — intransitive: to apply varnish
• German: lackieren — intransitive: to apply varnish
• German: firnissen — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Hungarian: lakkoz — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Hungarian: politúroz — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Hungarian: fényez — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Ingrian: öljytä — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Japanese: 塗る (nuru) — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Māori: wānihi — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Norman: vèrni — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Polish: lakierować — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Portuguese: envernizar — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Russian: лакирова́ть (lakirovátʹ) — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Slovak: lakovať — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Spanish: barnizar — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Spanish: lacar — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Swedish: lacka — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Turkish: verniklemek — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Ottoman Turkish: روغنلامق (ruganlamak) — intransitive: to apply varnish
• Azerbaijani: laklamaq — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Bulgarian: лакирам (lakiram) — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Finnish: lakata — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Georgian: ლაკირება (laḳireba) — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Hungarian: lakkoz — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Hungarian: politúroz — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Hungarian: fényez — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Ingrian: öljytä — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Polish: lakierować — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Portuguese: envernizar — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Russian: лакирова́ть (lakirovátʹ) — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Russian: покрыва́ть ла́ком (pokryvátʹ lákom) — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Slovak: nalakovať — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Slovak: zalakovať — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Upper Sorbian: firnisować — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Upper Sorbian: sfirnisować — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Spanish: barnizar — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Spanish: lacar — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Spanish: corlar — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Spanish: corlear — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Swedish: lacka — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Ottoman Turkish: روغنلامق (ruganlamak) — transitive: to cover up with varnish
• Bulgarian: прикривам (prikrivam) — to gloss over a defect
• Georgian: შენიღბვა (šeniɣbva) — to gloss over a defect
• Georgian: შელამაზება (šelamazeba) — to gloss over a defect
• Georgian: დაფარვა (daparva) — to gloss over a defect
• Hungarian: szépítget — to gloss over a defect
• Hungarian: takargat — to gloss over a defect
• Hungarian: kozmetikáz — to gloss over a defect
• Portuguese: envernizar — to gloss over a defect
• Russian: прикра́шивать (prikrášivatʹ) — to gloss over a defect