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mildew

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishmyldew, fromOld Englishmeledēaw,mildēaw, fromProto-West Germanic*milidauw, from*mili(“honey”) +‎*dauw(“dew”). CompareWest Frisianmoaldau,Dutchmeeldauw,GermanMehltau. More atdew.

Pronunciation

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(UK)IPA^(key): /ˈmɪl.djuː/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
(US)IPA^(key): /ˈmɪl.d(j)u/
Rhymes:-ɪldjuː,-ɪldu

Noun

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mildew (uncountable)

(phytopathology) A growth of minute powdery or webbyfungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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→ Catalan:míldiu
→ French:mildiou
→ Portuguese:míldio
→ Spanish:mildiu

Translations

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growth of minute fungi

Afrikaans:skimmel (af)
Albanian:myk (sq) m
Arabic:تَعَفُّن m(taʕaffun),عُفُونَة f(ʕufūna)
Armenian:բորբոս (hy)(borbos)
Azerbaijani:kif
Belarusian:цвіль f(cvilʹ),пле́сня f(pljésnja),бро́сня f(brósnja)
Bulgarian:мана (bg) f(mana)
Catalan:míldiu
Chinese:
Mandarin:霉菌 (zh)(méijūn),霉 (zh)(méi)
Czech:plíseň (cs) f
Danish:meldug (da),mug n or c
Dutch:schimmel (nl) m,meeldauw (nl) m
Esperanto:melduo,^{(pleaseverify)}ŝimo
Finnish:home (fi)
French:mildiou (fr) m
Georgian:ობი(obi),მილდიუ(mildiu),ჭრაქი (ka)(č̣raki)
German:Mehltau (de) m,Schimmel (de) m
Greek:μούχλα (el) f(moúchla)
Ancient:ἐρυσίβη f(erusíbē)
Hebrew:טַחַב (he) m(takhav)
Hindi:फफूंदी(phaphūndī)
Hungarian:lisztharmat (hu),üszög (hu),rozsda (hu),peronoszpóra (hu),penész (hu)
Hunsrik:Milldau m
Irish:caonach liath m,coincleach f
Italian:muffa (it) f
Jamaican Creole:junjo
Japanese:黴 (ja)(かび, kabi)
Kazakh:зай(zai),зең(zeñ)
Khmer:ផ្សិត (km)(phsət)
Korean:곰팡이(gompang'i)
Kyrgyz:көк дат(kök dat)
Latin:aurūgō f,rōbīgō f
Latvian:pelējums (lv) m
Lithuanian:miltligė f
Macedonian:му́вла (mk) f(múvla)
Maori:kūpā,kāhekaheka,hōpurupuru
Mongolian:хөгц (mn)(xögc)
Old English:mildēaw m or n,meledēaw m or n
Ottoman Turkish:كوف(küf)
Polish:pleśń (pl) f
Portuguese:míldio m,mofo (pt) m
Romanian:mucegai (ro)
Russian:пле́сень (ru) f(plésenʹ),ми́лдью (ru) f(míldʹju)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:плесан f,плијесан f,буђ m or f
Roman:plesan (sh) f,plijesan (sh) f,buđ (sh) m or f
Slovak:pleseň (sk) f
Slovene:plesen f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian:pómjodk m,mjodnica f
Upper Sorbian:pomjedź f
Spanish:moho (es) m,mildiu
Swedish:mjöldagg (sv)
Tagalog:tagulamin
Tajik:мағор(maġor),пӯпанак(püpanak),карра(karra)
Thai:please add this translation if you can
Tibetan:ཧམ་འབུ(ham 'bu)
Turkish:küf (tr)
Ukrainian:плі́снява(plísnjava),цвіль (uk) f(cvilʹ),плі́сень (uk) f(plísenʹ)
Uzbek:mogʻor (uz),poʻpanak (uz)
Vietnamese:mốc (vi)
Welsh:llwydni m
West Frisian:skimmel

Verb

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mildew (third-person singular simple presentmildews,present participlemildewing,simple past and past participlemildewed)

(transitive) To taint with mildew.
- c.1603–1606,William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iv],page298, column 1:
  Hee giues the Web and the Pin, ſquints the eye, and makes the Hare‐lippe;Mildewes the white Wheate, and hurts the poore Creature of earth.
(intransitive) To become tainted with mildew.
- 1851 November 14,Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC,page24:
  His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like amildewed skull.