# smoking
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsməʊkɪŋ/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊkɪŋ

### Etymology 1

From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke +‎ -ing.

#### Verb

smoking
* present participle and gerund of smoke

#### Adjective

smoking (comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)
* Giving off smoke.
** 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
* (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
    That woman is smoking!
* (slang) Showing great skill or talent.
    The band put on a smoking performance.

##### Derived terms

* anti-smoking
* cold smoking
* non-smoking, nonsmoking
* passive smoking
* secondary smoking
* smoking bishop
* smoking cap
* smoking ceremony
* smoking gun
* smoking hot
* smoking stool syndrome

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English smokyng, smokynge, equivalent to smoke +‎ -ing.

#### Noun

smoking (countable and uncountable, plural smokings)
* The act or process of emitting smoke.
* The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
    Smoking can lead to lung cancer.
** 2012, Montgomery J. Granger, Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior:He had the loudest voice of any drill sergeant, and seemed to enjoy the group smokings as well as the individual smokings.
* (by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
* The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavored by smoke.
* (slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.

##### Derived terms

* chain-smoking
* no smoking
* smoking car
* smoking carriage
* smoking compartment
* smoking jacket
* smoking room
* what are you smoking

##### Translations
### References

* “smoking”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* smokink

### Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

### Noun

smoking m inan
* dinner jacket, tuxedo

#### Declension
## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /smoːkenɡ/, [ˈsmoːkʰeŋ], /smovkenɡ/, [ˈsmɔwkʰeŋ]

### Noun

smoking c (singular definite smokingen, plural indefinite smokinger)
* black tie, dinner jacket, tuxedo

#### Inflection
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsmoː.kɪŋ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: smo‧king

### Noun

smoking m (plural smokings, diminutive smokinkje n)
* smoking jacket, black tie, dinner jacket, tuxedo [from late 19th c.]
    Ha, hij ziet eruit als een pinguïn in die smoking!Hah, he looks like a penguin in that tuxedo!

## French
### Etymology

From English smoking jacket, pseudo-anglicism.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /smɔ.kiŋ/

### Noun

smoking m (plural smokings)
* tuxedo, dinner jacket
** 1925, Maurice Dekobra, La Madone des sleepings:Varichkine avait endossé un smoking que nul dandy londonien n’eût renié, un smoking à revers de moire, avec un gilet de faille noire, orné d’une chaîne de montre à breloque symbolique : la faucille et le marteau d’or semés de rubis.Varishkin had donned a tuxedo that no London dandy would have refused, a tuxedo with moire lapels, with a black faille waistcoat, adorned with a watch chain with a symbolic charm: the sickle and hammer, made of gold strewn with rubies.

#### Descendants

* → Finnish: smokki
* → Turkish: smokin

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, a pseudo-anglicism, derived from smoking jacket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzmɔ.kinɡ/, /ˈzmɔ.kin/
* Rhymes: -ɔkinɡ, -ɔkin
* Hyphenation: smò‧king

### Noun

smoking m (invariable)
* tuxedo, dinner jacket

### References

* ↑ smoking in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English smoking jacket.

### Noun

smoking m (definite singular smokingen, indefinite plural smokinger, definite plural smokingene)
* tuxedo

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English smoking jacket.

### Noun

smoking m (definite singular smokingen, indefinite plural smokingar, definite plural smokingane)
* tuxedo

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, a pseudo-anglicism, derived from smoking (jacket).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsmɔ.kiŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔkiŋk
* Syllabification: smo‧king

### Noun

smoking m inan
* dinner jacket, tuxedo

#### Derived terms

* smokingowy

### Further reading

* smoking in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* smoking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, ultimately a pseudo-anglicism, derived from smoking jacket.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsmo(w).kĩ/ [ˈsmo(ʊ̯).kĩ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsmo(w).kĩ.ɡɨ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsmo(w).kĩ.ɡɨ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈsmow.kĩ.ɡɨ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈsmo.kĩ.ɡɨ/

### Noun

smoking m (plural smokings)
* tuxedo (formal suit)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, from English smoking jacket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /smǒkinɡ/
* Hyphenation: smo‧king

### Noun

smòking m (Cyrillic spelling смо̀кинг)
* tuxedo, dinner jacket

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /esˈmokin/ [ezˈmo.kĩn]
* Rhymes: -okin

### Noun

smoking m (plural smoking)
* Obsolete spelling of esmoquin.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Ellipsis of English smoking jacket. First attested in 1895.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsmoːkɪŋ/
* Rhymes: -oːkɪŋ

### Noun

smoking c
* a tuxedo; a dinner jacket

#### See also

* frack (“tailcoat”)

### References

* smoking in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* smoking in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* smoking in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)