stain

Etymology
From, , of origin, from , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. More at.

Replaced native from.

In some senses, influenced by unrelated, from , from , from + , from.

Noun

 * 1) A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
 * 2) A blemish on one's character or reputation.
 * 3) A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
 * 4) A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
 * 5)  One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
 * 1)  One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: ашәыта
 * Afrikaans: vlek
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: بُقْعَة
 * Assamese: চেকা, দাগ
 * Azerbaijani: ləkə
 * Bashkir: тап
 * Belarusian: пля́ма
 * Bikol Central: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: mansa
 * Chechen: таммагӏа
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎪᎸᎬ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 污跡,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: plet
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: makulo
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ლაქა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κηλίς, σπίλος
 * Higaonon: mansa
 * Hindi:, दाग़
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: plekki
 * Ingush: ӏатта
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ស្នាមប្រឡាក់
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پەڵە
 * Lao:
 * Latin: macula
 * Lithuanian: dėmė
 * Macedonian: флека, дамка
 * Maori: poapoa, tope, pūriko
 * Mongolian:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Plak
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: флека
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: škvrna
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish:, lekeler
 * Ukrainian: пля́ма
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Afrikaans: skandvlek
 * Azerbaijani: ləkə
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Latin: macula
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:, пятно́ позора
 * Spanish: ,


 * Afrikaans: kleurstof
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: colorante,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans: toetskleurstof
 * Finnish:
 * Polish: ,
 * Spanish:


 * German:
 * Telugu: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance.
 * to stain the hand with dye
 * armour stained with blood
 * 1) To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
 * 2) To coat a surface with a stain
 * to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.
 * the stained glass used for church windows
 * 1)  To become stained; to take a stain.
 * 2)  To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
 * 3) To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
 * 1) To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: verkleur
 * Azerbaijani:, ləkələndirmək
 * Bulgarian: обезцветявам
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σπιλόω
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پەڵە کردن
 * Latin: polluo, maculo
 * Maori: pūriko
 * Polish:, upaćkać, upaprać,
 * Quechua: ch'illuchay
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: sätta fläckar på, sätta en fläck på,


 * Afrikaans: bevlek
 * Azerbaijani:, ləkələndirmək
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian: sverte
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Manx: daaghey
 * Maori: pūriko
 * Polish: bejcować, zabejcować
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:, colorar,
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:
 * Latin:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Ultimately from Pre-Germanic, o-grade from.

Noun

 * 1) stone, rock, as material or individual piece of rock or pebble