soap

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
2. (broadly, countable, informal, uncountable) Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.
3. (countable, slang, uncountable) Money, specially when used as a bribe.
4. (countable, informal) A soap opera.
5. (countable) A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.

Verb

1. (transitive) To apply soap to in washing.
2. (informal, transitive) To cover, lather, or in any other manner treat with soap, often as a prank.
3. (informal, transitive) To be discreet about (a topic).
4. (dated, slang) To flatter; to wheedle.

Concepts

savon

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savonner

🧼

feuilleton

savonnette

soap

soap opera

téléroman

soap opéra

Max

savonette

max

téléroman

sapon

telenovela

se savonner

Synonymes

soap opera

grievous bodily harm

lather

goop

scoop

max

Georgia home boy

easy lay

liquid ecstasy

wash with soap

cleanser

pod

money

💸

saponify

serial

soapiness

soapy

solvent

story

toilet soap

bar soap

cleansing agent

lather up

powdered soap

sopamin

country-soap

compo rations

aerate

telenovela

animal fats

bath soap

black

cake of soap

corrupt

detergent

filthy

flatter

flattery

foam

gamma

Traductions

jabón

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Seife

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sapone

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zeep

🧼

σαπούνι

sabão

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sabun

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sabó

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sapo

sabûn

sabon

صابون

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insaponare

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einseifen

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Prononcé comme (IPA)

/soʊp/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: sope

Hérité de ancien anglais: sāpe

Appartenant à écossais: saip

Appartenant à saterlandais: Seepe

Appartenant à frison occidental: sjippe

Appartenant à néerlandais: zeep

Appartenant à allemand: Seife

Appartenant à danois: sæbe

Appartenant à suédois: såpa

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: såpe

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: såpe

Appartenant à féroïen: sápa

Appartenant à islandais: sápa

Appartenant à ancien anglais: sāp

Appartenant à latin: sēbum

Appartenant à latin: sāpō

In summary

From Middle English sope, sape, from Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”).
Cognate with Scots saip, sape (“soap”), Saterland Frisian Seepe (“soap”), West Frisian sjippe (“soap”), Dutch zeep (“soap”), German Low German Seep (“soap”), German Seife (“soap”), Danish sæbe (“soap”), Swedish såpa (“soap”), Norwegian Bokmål såpe (“soap”), Norwegian Nynorsk såpe (“soap”), Faroese sápa (“soap”), Icelandic sápa (“soap”), Finnish saippua (“soap”), Finnish suopa (“soft soap”). Related also to Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin sēbum (“tallow, fat, grease”). See seep. Latin sāpō (“soap”) is a borrowing from the Germanic.

Phrases

Shaw has played the character of Eve Jenson in the soap opera "Emmerdale".

Shaw a joué le personnage d'Eve Jenson dans le feuilleton "Emmerdale".