bleach

Etymology 1
From (also ), from, , variants of , from , from. More at.

Adjective

 * 1)  Pale; bleak.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬 (English ; compare also ).

Verb

 * 1)  To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
 * 2)  To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
 * 3)  To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
 * 4)  To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
 * 1)  To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
 * 2)  To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
 * 3)  To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
 * 1)  To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
 * 2)  To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
 * 1)  To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
 * 1)  To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَيَّضَ
 * Bulgarian:, обезцветявам
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: bělit
 * Danish: blege
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: bleikja
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: 漂白する
 * Kazakh: ақтау
 * Korean:
 * Maori: whakakōmā, whakatoki
 * Norman: blianchi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bleke, bleike
 * Nynorsk: bleike, bleikje
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: (clothing),  (hair),
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sicilian: passari a varicchina
 * Slovak: bieliť, vybieliť, odfarbiť
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: rengini açmak
 * Welsh:

Noun

 * 1)  A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
 * 2)  A variety of bleach.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: مَادَّة تَبْيِيض
 * Basque: lixiba
 * Belarusian: адбе́львальнік
 * Bislama: losavel
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: blegemiddel
 * Dutch:, Javel,
 * Esperanto: hipoklorita akvo, blankiga likvo
 * Finnish: valkaisuaine
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: אקונומיקה, מלבין
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: bleikiefni
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian: baliklis
 * Malay: peluntur
 * Maltese: bliċ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: blekemiddel, bleikemiddel
 * Nynorsk: bleikemiddel, bleikjemiddel
 * Occitan: lessiu
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, descorante, alvejante,
 * Russian: бели́льная и́звесть, бели́льный раство́р,
 * Serbo-Croatian: izbjeljivač
 * Sicilian: varicchina
 * Slovak: bielidlo
 * Spanish:, , blanqueador,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ไฮเตอร์, น้ำยาซักผ้าขาว
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: відбі́лювач
 * Welsh: cannydd

Etymology 3
From, from , , from. See Etymology 1 above.

Noun

 * 1) An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.

Etymology 4
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A disease of the skin characterized by hypopigmentation and itching, believed in the 17th century to be a form a leprosy.

Etymology
From (whiten). A reference to the fact that as night turns to day the sky gets lighter, as if it is being bleached.

Verb

 * 1) To stay awake through the night.