scavenger

Etymology
Originally from, from , from , , , , alteration of (compare 🇨🇬, ), from. Usually reinterpreted/re-analysed today as scavenge (which was originally a backformation from this word). Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1) Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
 * 2) An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
 * 3)  A street sweeper.
 * 4)  A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.
 * 5)  A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.

Translations

 * Arabic: نَبَّاش, قَمَّام.
 * Bulgarian: боклуджия
 * Czech: vybírač popelnic
 * Danish: skralder
 * Dutch:
 * German: Abfalldurchstöberer, Mülldurchstöberer
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: bailitheoir
 * Italian: razzolatore,
 * Latin: colacarius
 * Maori: hamuhamu
 * Portuguese: catador
 * Russian: помо́ешник
 * Spanish: reciclador, reciclador de base,,  ,  ,
 * Yoruba: túlẹ̀túlẹ̀, aṣalẹ̀


 * Breton: gagnaouaer
 * Catalan: carronyaire
 * Czech: mrchožrout
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: animal nécrophage,
 * German:
 * Greek: πτωματοφάγο
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean: 청소 동물
 * Macedonian: мршојадец
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: åtseleter
 * Nynorsk: åtseletar
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: mrhovinar
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sasaid
 * Yoruba: jòkújòkú


 * Bulgarian: очистител
 * German:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To scavenge.
 * 2)  To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.