de Jong Sawdust & Shavings, Lake Stevens, Washington, seen from Centennial Trail. From saw dust
sawdust (usually uncountable , plural sawdusts
The fine particles (dust ) created by sawing wood or other material. dust created by sawing
Albanian: tallash (sq) m
Amharic: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: نُشَارَة f ( nušāra )
Egyptian Arabic: نشارة f ( nišāra )
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܣܵܪܬܵܐ f ( nsārtā )
Armenian: թեփ (hy) ( tʻepʻ )
Azerbaijani: kəpək
Basque: zerrauts
Belarusian: пілаві́нне n ( pilavínnje ) , апі́лкі f pl ( apílki )
Breton: brenn-heskenn (br) m
Bulgarian: дъ́рвени стърготи́ни f pl ( dǎ́rveni stǎrgotíni ) , стърготи́ни (bg) f pl ( stǎrgotíni )
Burmese: လွှစာ (my) ( hlwa.ca )
Catalan: serradures f pl
Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎪᎬ ( usgogv )
Chinese:
Hokkien: 鋸屑 ／ 锯屑 ( kìr-sut, kù-sut, kì-sut )
Mandarin: 鋸末 ／ 锯末 (zh) ( jùmò ) ，鋸屑 ／ 锯屑 (zh) ( jùxiè ) , 木屑 (zh) ( mùxiè )
Classical Syriac: ܒܪܘܬܐ f ܢܣܪܬܐ f
Czech: piliny f pl
Danish: savsmuld (da) n or c
Dutch: zaagsel (nl) n
Egyptian: (wst f
Esperanto: segaĵo
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: saguspønir m pl
Finnish: sahanpuru (fi)
French: sciure (fr) f
Friulian: seadure f
Galician: serraduras f pl
Georgian: ნახერხი ( naxerxi )
German: Sägemehl (de) n Sägespäne (de) m pl
Greek: ροκανίδι (el) n ( rokanídi ) , πριονίδι (el) n ( prionídi )
Ancient: παράπρισμα n ( paráprisma )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: oka lāʻau
Hebrew: נסורת / נְסֹרֶת f ( n'sóret )
Hindi: बुरादा (hi) m ( burādā ) , चूरा (hi) m ( cūrā )
Hungarian: fűrészpor (hu)
Icelandic: sag n
Ido: seg-pulvero
Indonesian: serbuk gergaji (id)
Ingrian: opilka
Irish: min sáibh f
Italian: segatura (it) f
Japanese: 木屑 (ja) ( きくず, ki-kuzu ) , 大鋸屑 (ja) ( おがくず, oga-kuzu )
Kazakh: жоңқа ( joñqa ) , үгінді ( ügındı )
Khmer: អាចម៍រណារ ( ʼac rɔnaa )
Korean: 톱밥 ( topbap )
Lao: ຂີ້ເລື່ອຍ ( khī lư̄ay )
Latin: scobis f lānūgō f ( transferred sense )
Macedonian: дрвесина f ( drvesina )
Malagasy: tain-tsofa (mg)
Maori: kotakota
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: модны үртэс ( modny ürtes )
Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠳᠤᠨ ᠤ ( modun-u ürüdesü )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sagmugg m or n sagflis m or f
Nynorsk: sagflis f
Occitan: ressum m
Odia: please add this translation if you can
Pashto: بوره (ps) ( bura )
Persian: خاکاره (fa) ( xâk-arre )
Plautdietsch: Soagespoon n
Polish: trociny (pl) pl
Portuguese: serragem (pt) f
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: rumeguș (ro) n
Romansch: resgim m
Russian: опи́лки (ru) f pl ( opílki ) , древе́сная мука́ f ( drevésnaja muká )
Slovak: piliny f pl
Slovene: žaganje n žagovina f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: drobna rěz f
Upper Sorbian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: serrín (es) m aserrín (es) m aserraduras (es) f pl
Swahili: maramba
Swedish: sågspån (sv) n spån (sv) n
Tagalog: kusot piyaos
Tajik: аррамайда ( arramayda ) , хокарра ( xokarra )
Thai: ขี้เลื่อย (th) ( kîi-lʉ̂ai )
Turkish: talaş (tr)
Ukrainian: ти́рса f ( týrsa ) , пилови́ння n ( pylovýnnja )
Urdu: چُورَہ m ( cūrā )
Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
Uzbek: qipiq (uz) , qirindi (uz)
Vietnamese: mùn cưa (vi)
Walloon: soyoere (wa) f soeyure f
Welsh: blawd llif m llwch llif m
Yiddish: זעגעכץ n ( zegekhts ) , געזעגעכץ n ( gezegekhts ) , האָלצזעגעכץ n ( holtszegekhts ) , טראָטשינעס pl ( trotshines ) , פּילאָווינעס pl ( pilovines ) , פּילינעס pl ( pilines ) , זעגשטויב ( zegshtoyb ) , שאָבעכץ n ( shobekhts )
sawdust (third-person singular simple present sawdusts present participle sawdusting simple past and past participle sawdusted
To sprinkle with sawdust.
1855 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Little Dorrit Bradbury and Evans , [ … ] 1857 , →OCLC page 65 :[ …] the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.
