loofah

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) Any of several tropical vines of the genus, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd.
 * 2) The dried fibrous interior of such a plant, used as a sponge for bathing.
 * 3) Any bath sponge; a sponge on a handle.

Translations

 * Arabic:, لُوف
 * Azerbaijani: luffa
 * Catalan: luffa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 勝瓜
 * Hokkien: 竹篙瓜, 米管瓜, 鼠瓜, 水瓜, 布瓜
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: lufa
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: lufo
 * Estonian: käsnkõrvits
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: luffa, estropallos
 * German: Luffa
 * Hausa: soso
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian: luffa
 * Irish: lúfach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 天糸瓜
 * Kazakh: сәнқабақ
 * Khmer:
 * Kongo: nsana
 * Korean: 수세미
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: لفکە
 * Malay: petola
 * Malayalam: പീച്ചിംഗ
 * Persian: پیلگوش
 * Polish: trukwa
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian: lufa
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: mdodoki
 * Swedish: luffasläktet
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese: chi mướp


 * Arabic:, لُوف
 * Egyptian Arabic: ليفه, ليف
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Luffaschwamm
 * Hungarian: luffaszivacs
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: لفکە
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1)  To clean or scrub with a loofah.