emery

See also: Emery

English

Etymology

From French émeri, from Old French esmeril, from Italian smeriglio.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛməɹi/

Noun

emery (usually uncountable, plural emeries)

1. (mineralogy) An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing.
   • 1884, Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry:

     It took me from nine to ten days to grind and polish it ready for parabolising and silvering. I did this by hand labour with the aid of emery, but without a lathe. I finally used rouge instead of emery in grinding down the glass, until I could see my face in the mirror quite plain.

Derived terms

• emerise, emerize
• emery bag
• emery ball
• emery board
• emery cloth
• emery paper

 

Translations

mineral

• Afar: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: amaril
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: سُنْبَاذَج m (sunbāḏaj)
• Aramaic:

  Jewish: שָׁמִירָא m (šāmīrā)

  Syriac: ܫܡܝܪܐ m (šāmīrā)

• Armenian: զմռնիտ (hy) (zmṙnit), հղկաքար (hy) (hġkakʻar)

  Old Armenian: զմռնիտեան քար (zmṙnitean kʻar)

• Azerbaijani:

  Abjad: سنباده (suṁbāda)

  Roman: sumbata

• Belarusian: нажда́к m (naždák)
• Bulgarian: шми́ргел m (šmírgel)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: esmeril (ca) m
• Czech: smirek (cs) m, smyrek (cs) m
• Danish: smergel (da) c
• Dutch: amaril (nl)
• Esperanto: smirgo
• Finnish: smirgeli (fi)
• French: émeri (fr) m
• German: Schmirgel (de) m
• Greek: σμύριδα (el) f (smýrida)

  Ancient: σμύρις f (smúris)

• Gujarati: રેખમાળ (rekhmāḷ)
• Hebrew: שָׁמִיר (he) m (šāmīr)
• Hindi: एमरी m (emrī)
• Irish: éimear m
• Italian: smeriglio (it) m, spoltiglio m
• Japanese: 金剛砂 (こんごうさ, kongōsa)
• Karakalpak: qayraq qum
• Karakhanid: تُربِك (turbik), ترپگ (törpik)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 금강사 (geumgangsa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zimpare (ku) f

• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Nahuatl: please add this translation if you can
• Ottoman Turkish: زیمپارا (zumpara, zımpara), سمپاره (simpāré, sümpāré)
• Polish: szmergiel (pl) m
• Portuguese: esmeril (pt) m
• Russian: нажда́к (ru) m (naždák)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шмѝргл m, шмѝргла f, сми́рак m

  Latin: šmìrgl (sh) m, šmìrgla (sh) f, smírak (sh) m

• Slovak: šmirgeľ m
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: esmeril (es) m
• Swedish: smärgel (sv) c
• Tagalog: esmeril
• Tatar: ком кайрак (qom qayraq), кайрак комы (qayraq qomı)
• Thai: กากกะรุน (th) (gàak-gà-run), กากรุน (th) (gàak-run)
• Tigre: please add this translation if you can
• Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: zımpara (tr)
• Turkmen: gaýrak gumy
• Ukrainian: нажда́к m (naždák)
• Uzbek: najdak (uz), qum qayroq
• Vietnamese: đá nhám
• Welsh: llathrlwch m, emeri m

Verb

emery (third-person singular simple present emeries, present participle emerying, simple past and past participle emeried)

1. (transitive) To sand or polish with emery.
2. (transitive) To coat with emery.

Translations

To sand or polish with emery

• Catalan: esmerilar (ca)
• Esperanto: smirgi
• Spanish: esmerilar (es)

To coat with emery

Anagrams

• Meyer