FromMiddle Englishtalow,talgh, fromOld English*tealh,*tealg, (compareOld Englishtælg,telg(“dye”)), fromProto-West Germanic*talg, fromProto-Germanic*talgaz (compareDutchtalg,GermanTalg), fromProto-Indo-European*del-(“to flow”) (compareMiddle Irishdelt(“dew”),Old Armenianտեղ(teł,“heavy rain”)).
tallow (countable anduncountable,pluraltallows)
- A hardanimalfat obtained fromsuet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to makecandles,soap andlubricants.
1886,Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales, page240:"I have got a very fine shirt, which I am going to use for my wedding shirt; but there are threetallow stains on it which I want washed out[.]"
1929,M. Barnard Eldershaw,A House Is Built, chapter VIII, section ii:Nor were the wool prospects much better. Thepastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties byrecourse to boiling down the sheep for theirtallow, and was now firmly re-established as thestaple industry of the colony, was threatened once more witheclipse.
hard animal fat obtained
- Albanian:please add this translation if you can
- Armenian:ճարպ (hy)(čarp),ճրագու (hy)(čragu)
- Azerbaijani:piy (az)
- Basque:gantz
- Belarusian:са́ла n(sála)
- Bulgarian:лой (bg)(loj),сало (bg) n(salo)
- Catalan:sèu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:油脂 (zh)(yóuzhī),牛脂(niúzhī)(cow fat)
- Czech:lůj (cs) m
- Danish:talg (da) c
- Dutch:talg (nl) m
- Esperanto:sebo
- Estonian:rasv (et)
- Faroese:tálg f
- Finnish:tali (fi)
- French:suif (fr) m
- Friulian:sêf m,sêv m
- Galician:sebo m
- Georgian:please add this translation if you can
- German:Talg (de) m,(beef)Rindertalg (de) m,(mutton)Hammeltalg,(mutton)Schöpsentalg m
- Hebrew:please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian:faggyú (hu)
- Icelandic:tólg f
- Italian:sego (it) m
- Japanese:獣脂 (ja)(じゅうし, jūshi),牛脂 (ja)(ぎゅうし, gyūshi)(cow fat),ヘット(hetto)
- Korean:수지 (ko)(suji)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish:پیو(pîw)
- Southern Kurdish:پیم(pîm)
- Latin:sēbum n
- Latvian:please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian:please add this translation if you can
- Lushootseed:ʔudaw̓
- Macedonian:лој m(loj)
- Maori:hinu hipi(from mutton)
- Middle English:talow
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:talg m orf
- Nynorsk:talg m orf
- Old Norse:tolg f
- Persian:پیه (fa)
- Polabian:lüj m
- Polish:łój (pl) m
- Portuguese:sebo (pt)
- Russian:са́ло (ru) n(sálo)
- Saterland Frisian:Ungel m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:ло̑ј m
- Roman:lȏj (sh) m
- Sicilian:sivu (scn) m
- Slovak:loj m
- Slovene:loj m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian:łoj m
- Spanish:sebo (es) m
- Swedish:talg (sv) c
- Tajik:пиҳ(pih)
- Ukrainian:са́ло (uk) n(sálo),лій (uk) m(lij)
- Venetan:seo m,sef
- Volapük:lepin (vo),pin (vo),piun,pim,(mutton)jipalepin,(mutton)jipapin,(beef)bubalepin,bubapin,(beef)kunapim
- Walloon:shû (wa) m
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tallow (third-person singular simple presenttallows,present participletallowing,simple past and past participletallowed)
- Togrease orsmear with tallow.
- To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; tofatten.
- totallow sheep
to grease or smear with tallow
