Clean

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

Pronunciation

 * (, dated), ,
 * (, dated), ,
 * (, dated), ,

Adjective

 * 1)  Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
 * 2) Not dirty.
 * Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
 * 1) In an unmarked condition.
 * 2)  Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
 * 3) empty
 * 4)  Having relatively few impurities.
 * 5)  Free of immorality or criminality.
 * 6) Pure, especially morally or religiously.
 * That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven.
 * 1) * 1914, New Zealand Parliamentary Debates (volume 168, page 195)
 * I do not think there is any member in this House who will not agree that that is the clean thing to do. Any member sitting on the Government benches will admit in private that that is the proper course for members who break faith.
 * 1) Not having used drugs or alcohol.
 * 2)  Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.
 * 3)  Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
 * 4)  Devoid of profanity.
 * 5) smooth, exact, and performed well
 * 6)  Total; utter.
 * Moreover, I find there are some Words now in French which are turned to a Countersense Cocu is taken for one whose Wife is light, and hath made him a passive Cuckold; whereas clean contrary, Cocu, which is the Cuckow, doth use to lay her Eggs in another Bird's Nest.
 * 1)  Cool or neat.
 * 2)  Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
 * 3) That does not  the.
 * 4) Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
 * 5) Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
 * When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
 * 1) Well-proportioned; shapely.
 * 2)  Ascended without falling.
 * 1) smooth, exact, and performed well
 * 2)  Total; utter.
 * Moreover, I find there are some Words now in French which are turned to a Countersense Cocu is taken for one whose Wife is light, and hath made him a passive Cuckold; whereas clean contrary, Cocu, which is the Cuckow, doth use to lay her Eggs in another Bird's Nest.
 * 1)  Cool or neat.
 * 2)  Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
 * 3) That does not  the.
 * 4) Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
 * 5) Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
 * When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
 * 1) Well-proportioned; shapely.
 * 2)  Ascended without falling.
 * 1) Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
 * 2) Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
 * When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
 * 1) Well-proportioned; shapely.
 * 2)  Ascended without falling.
 * 1) Well-proportioned; shapely.
 * 2)  Ascended without falling.
 * 1)  Ascended without falling.

Translations

 * Adyghe: къабзэ
 * Afrikaans: skoon
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language: OpenB@BasePalm-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Finger-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: نَظِيف
 * Egyptian Arabic: نضيف
 * Aragonese: limpio, neto
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: curat,, spilat, chischin, spastru, pãstrit
 * Assamese: চফা, চাফা, চাফ চিকুণ, চিকুণ, পৰিষ্কাৰ
 * Asturian: llimpiu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: таҙа
 * Basque: garbi
 * Belarusian: чы́сты
 * Bengali: সাফ,, পরিস্কার
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: цӏена
 * Cherokee:
 * Chickasaw: chifata, chofata
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 乾淨, 干净
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chuvash: таса
 * Cornish: glan
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: pura
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: reinur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: net
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სუფთა
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌻𐌿𐍄𐍂𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: καθαρός
 * Gujarati:
 * Hausa: tsari
 * Hawaiian: maʻemaʻe
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: साफ़,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: munde
 * Interlingue: nett
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kumyk: таза
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ,


 * Kyrgyz:, пакиз,
 * Ladin: nët
 * Lao: ສະອາດ
 * Latin: purus, mundus, tersus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: švarus
 * Luxembourgish: propper
 * Macedonian: чист
 * Malay: bersih
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: mā
 * Meänkieli: puhas
 * Mirandese:
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali: सफा
 * Norman: net, naette , propre
 * Novial:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: чистъ
 * Old English: clǣne
 * Oriya:
 * Ossetian:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: rein
 * Polabian: caistĕ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: llimphu
 * Rajasthani:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: glan
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чи̏ст
 * Roman:
 * Shor: арығ
 * Sicilian:
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese: පිරිසුදු
 * Slovak: čistý
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: cysty
 * Southern Altai: ару
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: nadhifu,
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠌꠣꠚꠣ
 * Tagalog: malinis
 * Tajik: пок,, покиза, соф, тамиз
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: таза,, чиста
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: གཙང་མ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: tämiz
 * Tuvan: арыг
 * Ukrainian: чи́стий
 * Urdu: صاف
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Venetian: néto, neto, net
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: huv
 * Yiddish: ריין


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: puro
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Maori: takakau, pokekore


 * Mongolian: ,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: чистъ
 * Plautdietsch: rein
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чи̏ст
 * Roman:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: cysty
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чи̏ст
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чи̏ст
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:


 * Finnish:


 * Catalan: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Catalan:
 * Italian:


 * Russian:


 * Albanian:
 * Breton:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * Indonesian:


 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:
 * Welsh:

Noun

 * 1) Removal of dirt.
 * 2)  The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
 * 1)  The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

Derived terms

 * power clean

Translations

 * Portuguese:, limpada


 * Bulgarian: изтласкване


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1)  To remove dirt from a place or object.
 * 2)  To tidy up, make a place neat.
 * 3)  To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
 * 4)  To make things clean in general.
 * 5)  To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
 * 6)  To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
 * 7)  To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
 * 8) To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
 * 1)  To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
 * 2)  To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
 * 3) To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:make clean

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نَظَّفَ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: cur, pãstrescu
 * Assamese: চফা কৰা, চাফা কৰা, চাফ চিকুণ কৰা, চিকুণ কৰা, পৰিষ্কাৰ কৰা
 * Asturian: llimpiar
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: чы́сціць, пачы́сціць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏅᎦᎵᎭ
 * Chickasaw: chifalli, chofalli, chofatli
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: glanhe
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: rense
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Esperanto: poluri
 * Estonian: puhastama
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: netâ
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: წმენდა, გასუფთავება
 * German:, , ,
 * Alemannic German: abbuddse
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: netwaye
 * Hindi: साफ करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: þrífa,
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kabuverdianu: linpa
 * Khmer:, ជំរះ, ដុសលាង
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Ladin: puzné
 * Lao:
 * Latin: purgo, mundo, tergeo


 * Latvian: notirit, tīrīt
 * Lithuanian: valyti, švarinti
 * Luxembourgish: botzen, rengegen, propper maachen
 * Macedonian: чисти
 * Maltese: naddaf
 * Maori: horoi
 * Mongolian:
 * Neapolitan: pulizzà
 * Nepali: सफा गर्नु
 * Norman: netti
 * Norwegian: rent
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: clǣnsian
 * Oriya:
 * Ottoman Turkish: تمیزله‌مك
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: mayllay, pichay
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scots: dicht
 * Scottish Gaelic: glan
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чи̏стити
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Skolt Sami: čiistâd
 * Slovak: čistiť
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: safisha
 * Swedish:, göra ren
 * Tagalog: linisin, linisan
 * Tamil: சுத்தமாக்கு
 * Telugu: శుభ్రం చేయు
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: གཙང་མ་བཟོས
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan: чуур
 * Ukrainian: чи́стити, почи́стити
 * Venetian: netar
 * Vietnamese:, làm sạch
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: ntxuav
 * Yiddish: פּוצן, רייניקן
 * Zhuang:


 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: yığışdırmaq, səliqəyə salmaq
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chickasaw: chifalli, chofalli, chofatli
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: netâ
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מנקה
 * Hindi: साफ करना


 * Irish:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Ladin: rumé su, puzné
 * Maori: whakapai
 * Mongolian:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scots: dicht
 * Scottish Gaelic: glan
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: linisin,
 * Thai:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Icelandic: þrífa


 * Irish:
 * Japanese:
 * Luxembourgish: rengegen
 * Norman: netti
 * Portuguese:
 * Scots: dicht
 * Scottish Gaelic: glan
 * Tagalog: maglinis
 * Thai: ทำความสะอาด


 * Finnish:


 * Breton: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Polish:
 * Swedish: ,

Adverb

 * 1) Fully and completely.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Irish: ar fad
 * Russian

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adjective

 * , not having used s

Etymology
From. .

Adjective

 * 1)  clean, drugfree

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) cradle (oscillating bed for a baby)
 * 2) cot
 * 3) cage
 * 4) pannier
 * 1) pannier