smog

See also: Smog and smög

English

Etymology

Blend of smoke +‎ fog.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /smɒɡ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: smäg, IPA^(key): /smɑɡ/ also IPA^(key): /smɔɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

smog (countable and uncountable, plural smogs)

2. A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

   Synonyms: pea-souper, pea-soup fog

   • 1973 April 22, Martha Weinman Lear, “Clare Boothe Luce, she who is behind ‘The Women’”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     A widow since 1967, she lives now in Honolulu because, she says, she can enjoy the Californialike climate without the smog.

   • 2015, Richard Blackshire, Newtown Naughty Boy, page 145:

     Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.

Hyponyms

• black smog (combination of smoke and fog; stereotypical 19th century London smog)
• photochemical smog (brown haze and ozone; stereotypical 1980s Los Angeles afternoon smog)
• summer smog

Derived terms

• electronic smog
• smoggy
• vog

Translations

urban air pollution

• Arabic: ضُبْخَان m (ḍubḵān), الضَّبَاب الدُّخَانِيّ m (aḍ-ḍabāb ad-duḵāniyy)
• Armenian: սմոգ (hy) (smog)
• Bulgarian: смог m (smog)
• Catalan: boirum (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙霧／烟雾 (zh) (yānwù)

• Czech: smog (cs)
• Dutch: smog (nl) m
• Esperanto: fumnebulo
• Estonian: sudu (et)
• Finnish: savusumu (fi), smogi
• French: smog (fr) m
• Galician: calixen m
• German: Smog (de) m
• Greek: αιθαλομίχλη (el) f (aithalomíchli), καπνομίχλη (el) f (kapnomíchli)
• Hebrew: ערפיח (he) m
• Hungarian: füstköd (hu)
• Icelandic: þreykur m, reykjarmóða f, mengunarmóða f
• Indonesian: asbut (id), asap-kabut
• Irish: toitcheo m
• Italian: smog (it), caligine (it) f, fuligine f, fubbia f (rare)
• Japanese: スモッグ (ja) (sumoggu)
• Korean: 스모그 (ko) (seumogeu)
• Macedonian: смог m (smog)
• Malayalam: പുകമഞ്ഞ് (pukamaññŭ)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: مه دود (meh-dud)
• Polish: smog (pl) m
• Portuguese: smog m
• Romanian: smog (ro) n
• Russian: смог (ru) m (smog)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: смо̏г m

  Roman: smȍg (sh) m

• Spanish: esmog (es), neblumo (es), niebla contaminante, calina (es)
• Swedish: smog (sv) c
• Tagalog: ulop
• Ukrainian: смог m (smoh)
• Welsh: mwrllwch m

Verb

smog (third-person singular simple present smogs, present participle smogging, simple past and past participle smogged)

1. (informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.

   If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.

See also

• smaze
• dry fog, dry haze, haze

References

• “smog”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• MGOs, Goms, GMOs, goms, mogs

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsmok]

Noun

smog m inan

1. smog

Declension

Declension of smog (velar masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	smog	smogy
genitive	smogu	smogů
dative	smogu	smogům
accusative	smog	smogy
vocative	smogu	smogy
locative	smogu	smozích
instrumental	smogem	smogy

Derived terms

• smogový

 

Further reading

• “smog”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “smog”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

smog m (uncountable)

1. smog

French

Noun

smog m (plural smogs)

1. smog

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzmɔɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡ
• Hyphenation: smòg

Noun

smog m (invariable)

1. smog

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: smog
• Homophones: smok, Smok

Noun

smog m inan

1. smog

Declension

Declension of smog

	singular
nominative	smog
genitive	smogu
dative	smogowi
accusative	smog
instrumental	smogiem
locative	smogu
vocative	smogu

Derived terms

adjective

• smogowy

 

Further reading

• smog in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• smog in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English smog.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /izˈmɔ.ɡu.i/ [izˈmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /ˈsmɔ.ɡu.i/ [ˈsmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /izˈmɔ.ɡi/, /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /izˈmɔ.ɡu.i/ [izˈmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /ˈsmɔ.ɡu.i/ [ˈsmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /izˈmɔ.ɡi/, /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʒˈmɔ.ɡu.i/ [iʒˈmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /ˈsmɔ.ɡu.i/ [ˈsmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /iʒˈmɔ.ɡi/, /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔ.ɡu.i/ [ˈsmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /izˈmɔ.ɡu.i/ [izˈmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/, /izˈmɔ.ɡi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/ [ˈsmɔ.ɣi]

• Hyphenation: smog

Noun

smog m (uncountable)

1. smog (urban air pollution)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Noun

smog n (uncountable)

1. smog

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	smog	smogul
genitive-dative	smog	smogului
vocative	smogule

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smôɡ/

Noun

smȍg m (Cyrillic spelling смо̏г)

1. smog

Declension

Declension of smog

	singular	plural
nominative	smog	smogovi
genitive	smoga	smogova
dative	smogu	smogovima
accusative	smog	smogove
vocative	smogu / smože	smogove
locative	smogu	smogovima
instrumental	smogom	smogovima

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈmoɡ/ [ezˈmoɣ̞], /ˈsmoɡ/ [ˈzmoɣ̞]
• Rhymes: -oɡ
• Syllabification: smog

Noun

smog m (plural smogs)

1. smog