smoking

See also: Smoking and smóking

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsməʊkɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊkɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke +‎ -ing.

Verb

smoking

1. present participle and gerund of smoke

Adjective

smoking (comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)

1. Giving off smoke.
   • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:

     Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.

2. (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.

   That woman is smoking!

3. (slang) Showing great skill or talent.

   The band put on a smoking performance.

Derived terms

• anti-smoking
• cold smoking
• non-smoking, nonsmoking
• passive smoking
• secondary smoking
• smoking bishop
• smoking cap
• smoking ceremony
• smoking gun
• smoking hot
• smoking stool syndrome

 

Translations

giving off smoke

• Bulgarian: димящ (bg) (dimjašt), пушещ (bg) (pušešt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冒烟 (zh) (màoyān, literally “rising smoke”)

• Czech: kouřící
• Finnish: savuava (fi)
• Hungarian: füstölő (hu)
• Latin: fūmifer
• Portuguese: esfumaçante
• Romanian: fumigen (ro) m, fumigenă f, fumător (ro) (rare)
• Russian: дымящий (ru) (dymjaščij), коптящий (ru) (koptjaščij), чадящий (ru) (čadjaščij)
• Scottish Gaelic: smocadh, smùid
• Slovak: dymiaci
• Spanish: humeante

Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火辣 (zh) (huǒlà, literally “fire spicy”)

• French: bonne (fr) f
• Portuguese: gostoso (pt)
• Russian: привлека́тельный (ru) (privlekátelʹnyj)

Etymology 2

From Middle English smokyng, smokynge, equivalent to smoke +‎ -ing.

Noun

smoking (countable and uncountable, plural smokings)

1. The act or process of emitting smoke.
2. The burning and inhalation of tobacco.

   Smoking can lead to lung cancer.

   • 2012, Montgomery J. Granger, Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior:

     He had the loudest voice of any drill sergeant, and seemed to enjoy the group smokings as well as the individual smokings.

3. (by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
4. The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavoured by smoke
5. (slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.

Derived terms

• no smoking
• smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartment
• smoking jacket
• smoking room

Translations

smoking of tobacco

• Arabic: تَدْخِين m (tadḵīn)
• Armenian: ծխելը (cxelə), ծխում (hy) (cxum)
• Bashkir: тәмәке тартыу (təməke tartıw), тартыу (tartıw)
• Belarusian: пале́нне n (paljénnje), курэ́нне n (kurénnje)
• Bulgarian: пу́шене n (púšene), тютюнопу́шене (bg) n (tjutjunopúšene)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 食煙 / 食烟 (sik⁶ jin¹)

  Hokkien: 食薰 (zh-min-nan) (chia̍h-hun)

  Mandarin: 抽煙 / 抽烟 (zh) (chōuyān), 吸煙 / 吸烟 (zh) (xīyān)

• Czech: kouření (cs) n
• Danish: rygning c
• Dutch: roken (nl)
• Esperanto: fumado
• Estonian: suitsutamine
• Finnish: tupakointi (fi)
• French: tabagisme (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Rauchen (de) n
• Greek: κάπνισμα (el) n (kápnisma)
• Hebrew: עישון (he) m (ishún)
• Hindi: धूम्रपान (hi) (dhūmrapān)
• Hungarian: dohányzás (hu)
• Icelandic: reykingar f pl
• Irish: caitheamh tobac m
• Italian: fumare (it), tabagismo (it)
• Japanese: 喫煙 (ja) (きつえん, kitsuen)
• Khmer: ការជក់បារី (karchôkbari)
• Korean: 흡연(吸煙) (ko) (heubyeon), 끽연(喫煙) (ko) (kkigyeon)
• Latvian: smēķēšana f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: пу́шење n (púšenje)
• Malayalam: പുകവലി (ml) (pukavali)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: røyking m or f

  Nynorsk: røyking f

• Polish: palenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: fumo (pt) m, tabagismo (pt)
• Romanian: fumător (ro) m, fumătoare (ro) f
• Russian: куре́ние (ru) n (kurénije), табакокуре́ние (ru) n (tabakokurénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: smocadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пушење n

  Roman: pušenje (sh) n

• Slovak: fajčenie (sk) n
• Slovene: kajenje (sl) n
• Spanish: tabaquismo (es)
• Swahili: uvutaji sigara
• Swedish: rökning (sv) c
• Tagalog: paninigarilyo
• Telugu: ధూమపానము (te) (dhūmapānamu)
• Thai: การสูบ (th) (gaan sòop), การสูบบุหรี่ (gaan sòop bù rèe)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: палі́ння n (palínnja), курі́ння n (kurínnja)
• Vietnamese: sự hút thuốc (vi)

action of giving off smoke

• Bashkir: төтәү (tötəw)
• Czech: kouření (cs) n
• Finnish: savuaminen (fi)
• Greek: κάπνισμα (el) n (kápnisma)
• Macedonian: пу́шење n (púšenje)
• Portuguese: esfumaçamento m
• Scottish Gaelic: smùideadh m
• Slovak: dymenie

References

• “smoking”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Czech

Alternative forms

• smokink

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

Noun

smoking m inan

1. dinner jacket, tuxedo

Declension

Declension of smoking (velar masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	smoking	smokingy
genitive	smokingu	smokingů
dative	smokingu	smokingům
accusative	smoking	smokingy
vocative	smokingu	smokingy
locative	smokingu	smokinzích
instrumental	smokingem	smokingy

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smoːkenɡ/, [ˈsmoːkʰeŋ], /smovkenɡ/, [ˈsmɔwkʰeŋ]

Noun

smoking c (singular definite smokingen, plural indefinite smokinger)

1. black tie, dinner jacket, tuxedo

Inflection

Declension of smoking

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	smoking	smokingen	smokinger	smokingerne
genitive	smokings	smokingens	smokingers	smokingernes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmoː.kɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: smo‧king

Noun

smoking m (plural smokings, diminutive smokinkje n)

1. smoking jacket, black tie, dinner jacket, tuxedo [from late 19th c.]

   Ha, hij ziet eruit als een pinguïn in die smoking!

   Hah, he looks like a penguin in that tuxedo!

French

Etymology

From English smoking jacket, pseudo-anglicism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɔ.kiŋ/

Noun

smoking m (plural smokings)

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket
   • 1925, Maurice Dekobra, La Madone des sleepings:

     Varichkine avait endossé un smoking que nul dandy londonien n’eût renié, un smoking à revers de moire, avec un gilet de faille noire, orné d’une chaîne de montre à breloque symbolique : la faucille et le marteau d’or semés de rubis.

     Varishkin had donned a tuxedo that no London dandy would have refused, a tuxedo with moire lapels, with a black faille waistcoat, adorned with a watch chain with a symbolic charm: the sickle and hammer, made of gold strewn with rubies.

Descendants

• → Finnish: smokki
• → Turkish: smokin

Further reading

• “smoking”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, a pseudo-anglicism, derived from smoking jacket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzmɔ.kinɡ/, /ˈzmɔ.kin/
• Rhymes: -ɔkinɡ, -ɔkin
• Hyphenation: smò‧king

Noun

smoking m (invariable)

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English smoking jacket.

Noun

smoking m (definite singular smokingen, indefinite plural smokinger, definite plural smokingene)

1. tuxedo

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English smoking jacket.

Noun

smoking m (definite singular smokingen, indefinite plural smokingar, definite plural smokingane)

1. tuxedo

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, a pseudo-anglicism, derived from smoking (jacket).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔ.kiŋk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔkiŋk
• Syllabification: smo‧king

Noun

smoking m inan

1. dinner jacket, tuxedo

Declension

Declension of smoking

	singular	plural
nominative	smoking	smokingi
genitive	smokingu	smokingów
dative	smokingowi	smokingom
accusative	smoking	smokingi
instrumental	smokingiem	smokingami
locative	smokingu	smokingach
vocative	smokingu	smokingi

Derived terms

adjective

• smokingowy

 

Further reading

• smoking in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• smoking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, ultimately a pseudo-anglicism, derived from smoking jacket.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsmo(w).kĩ/ [ˈsmo(ʊ̯).kĩ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsmo(w).kĩ.ɡɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsmo(w).kĩ.ɡɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsmow.kĩ.ɡɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsmo.kĩ.ɡɨ/

Noun

smoking m (plural smokings)

1. tuxedo (formal suit)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, from English smoking jacket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smǒkinɡ/
• Hyphenation: smo‧king

Noun

smòking m (Cyrillic spelling смо̀кинг)

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

Declension

Declension of smoking

	singular	plural
nominative	smoking	smokinzi
genitive	smokinga	smokinga
dative	smokingu	smokinzima
accusative	smoking	smokinge
vocative	smokinže / smokingu	smokinzi
locative	smokingu	smokinzima
instrumental	smokingom	smokinzima

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈmokin/ [ezˈmo.kĩn]
• Rhymes: -okin

Noun

smoking m (plural smoking)

1. Obsolete spelling of esmoquin.

Swedish

en smoking

Etymology

Ellipsis of English smoking jacket. First attested in 1895.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmoːkɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -oːkɪŋ

Noun

smoking c

1. a tuxedo; a dinner jacket

Declension

Declension of smoking

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	smoking	smokings
	definite	smokingen	smokingens
plural	indefinite	smokingar	smokingars
	definite	smokingarna	smokingarnas

See also

• frack (“tailcoat”)

References

• smoking in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• smoking in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• smoking in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)