# sawdust
## English
### Etymology

From saw +‎ dust.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔːˌdʌst/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

sawdust (usually uncountable, plural sawdusts)
* The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.

#### Coordinate terms

* excelsior, woodflour, wood flour, woodmeal, woodshavings, woodwool, wood wool

#### Derived terms

* plait sawdust
* sawdust circuit
* sawdust joint
* sawdust pudding
* sawdust trail
* sawdusty
* sea sawdust
* spit-and-sawdust

#### Translations

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 ᠦᠷᠦᠳᠡᠰᠦ (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) :

### Verb

sawdust (third-person singular simple present sawdusts, present participle sawdusting, simple past and past participle sawdusted)
* To sprinkle with sawdust.
** 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), 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.