lye

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1
From, , from , , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
 * 2) Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: alsivã, alisivã
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 灰水
 * Czech: louh
 * Danish: lud
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: alkala solvaĵo
 * Estonian: leelis
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , ,
 * Galician:, bogada, decoada, cenrada
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ῥύμμα
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: lútur
 * Indonesian: lindi
 * Irish: buac
 * Italian:, cenerata,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Latin: lixa
 * Macedonian: пепе́лница, цеѓ, лу́га
 * Manx: booag
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: lut
 * Occitan: lessiu
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوغاده
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: buac
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лу̑г
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lihiya, tilis
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: buğada,
 * Ukrainian: луг
 * Vietnamese: nước tro, nước tro tàu
 * Welsh: lleisw


 * Czech: hydroxid draselný, hydroxid sodný
 * Dutch: natriumhydroxide, caustic soda, caustische soda, bijtende soda
 * French: ,
 * German: Ätznatron, kaustisches Soda
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese: soda cáustica
 * Russian:,  ,


 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Quechua:
 * Vietnamese:

Verb

 * 1) To treat with lye.

Etymology 2
Variant of now used in a specialised sense; compare.

Noun

 * 1)  A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
 * 1)  A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.

Etymology 1
From, from the adjective.

Verb

 * 1) to warm up, give off warmth