# poudre
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French poudre, poldre, from Late Latin pulvera, neuter plural based on Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pudʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

poudre f (plural poudres)
* (obsolete) dust
    Synonym: poussière
* powder

#### Derived terms

* comme une traînée de poudre
* faire de la poudre
* faire parler la poudre
* lait en poudre
* mettre le feu aux poudres
* ne pas avoir inventé la poudre
* poudre à canon
* poudre à laver
* poudre à lessiver
* poudre aux yeux
* poudre de perlimpinpin
* poudre d’escampette
* poudre Shimosa
* poudrer
* poudrerie
* poudrette
* poudreuse
* poudreux
* prendre la poudre d’escampette
* sucre en poudre

#### Related terms

* poussière
* pulvériser

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: pudra
* → Belarusian: пудра (pudra)
* → Faroese: putur
* → German: Puder
* → Greek: πούδρα (poúdra)
* → Hungarian: púder
* → Macedonian: пудра (pudra)
* → Norwegian: pudder
* → Ottoman Turkish: پودره (pudra)
** Turkish: pudra
* → Persian: پودر (pudr)
* → Polish: puder
* → Romanian: pudră
* → Russian: пудра (pudra)
* → Serbo-Croatian: puder / пудер
* → Slovene: puder
* → Spanish: puder
* → Swedish: puder
** → Finnish: puuteri
* → Ukrainian: пудра (pudra)
* → Yiddish: פּודער (puder)

### Further reading

* “poudre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old French poudre, ultimately from Latin pulvis.

#### Alternative forms

* powder, pouder, powdre, pouldre, powdir, powdyr, pudre, poudur, poweder, pouþer, powþer, powther, powdur

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpuːdər/, /ˈpuːðər/, /ˈpuːdrə/

#### Noun

poudre (plural poudres)
* powder (a collection of particles):
** Dust; powder as a waste products or generated from the remains of something.
** Ashes; the matter produced by combustion.
** Earth, dirt; the particles that compose soil.
** Various powders as used in medicine or alchemy.
** Powders used for culinary purposes; spices.
** (rare) Gunpowder; black powder.
* The results of the decomposition of one's corpse.
* (rare) A speckling; an stippled pattern.

##### Derived terms

* gunnepoudre
* poudren

##### Descendants

* English: powder (see there for further descendants)
* Scots: pouder, pouther
* → Welsh: powdr, powdwr, pwdr

##### References

* “pǒudre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

poudre
* Alternative form of poudren

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* puldre, pudre, poldre, podre
* polre (Picardy, Lorraine)
* pourre (Champagne)
* poure, pourre

### Etymology

From Late Latin pulvera, neuter plural based on Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”). Compare Old Occitan poldra, polvera.

### Noun

poudre oblique singular, f (oblique plural poudres, nominative singular poudre, nominative plural poudres)
* powder
* dust

#### Related terms

* pous

#### Descendants

* French: poudre (see there for further descendants)
* Norman: poudre
* Walloon: poure, poude
* → Middle Dutch: poeder
** Dutch: poeder, poeier (colloquial)
*** Afrikaans: poeier
*** → Indonesian: pudêr, puyer, puyêr
*** → Papiamentu: puiru, poeier
*** → Sranan Tongo: puiri
**** → Aukan: puili
**** → Caribbean Hindustani: puiri
** Limburgish: pójjer
* → Middle English: poudre, powder, pouder, powdre, pouldre, powdir, powdyr, pudre, poudur, poweder, pouþer, powþer, powther, powdur
** English: powder (see there for further descendants)
** Scots: pouder, pouther
** → Welsh: powdr, powdwr, pwdr
* → Middle Irish: púdar
** Irish: púdar
** Manx: poodyr
** Scottish Gaelic: fùdar, pùdar

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pŭlvis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 561