turpentine

English

Etymology

From Middle English terebentyne, terbentyne, turbentine, from Old French terbentine, turbentine, ultimately from Ancient Greek τέρμινθος (términthos, “terebinth”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː.pənˌtaɪn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.pənˌtaɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)pəntaɪn

Noun

turpentine (countable and uncountable, plural turpentines)

1. Any oleoresin secreted by the wood or bark of certain trees.
2. A volatile essential oil now obtained from such oleoresin of from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; a complex mixture of monoterpenes; now used as a solvent and paint thinner.

   Synonyms: spirit of turpentine, spirits of turpentine, oil of turpentine, terebenthene, terebinthine, turps, tarpin

3. (Australia) A turpentine tree (genus Syncarpia).

Derived terms

• Aleppo turpentine
• Bordeaux turpentine
• Bourdeaux turpentine
• brush turpentine (Choricarpia leptopetala, Rhodamnia rubescens)
• Canada turpentine
• Canadian turpentine
• Carpathian turpentine
• Chian turpentine
• Chio turpentine
• common turpentine
• crude turpentine
• Cyprian turpentine, Cyprus turpentine
• French turpentine
• gum turpentine
• Hungarian turpentine
• larch turpentine
• mineral turpentine
• oil of turpentine, oils of turpentine
• Russian turpentine
• Scio turpentine
• scrub turpentine (Canarium australianum, Rhodamnia rubescens)
• spirit of turpentine, spirits of turpentine
• Strasbourg turpentine
• Strasburgh turpentine
• Strasburg turpentine
• sulfate turpentine
• turpentine beetle (Dendroctonus spp.)
• turpentine borer (Buprestis apricans)
• turpentine broom (Thamnosma montana)
• turpentine bush
• turpentine camphor
• turpentine grass (Cymbopogon spp.)
• turpentine moth (Tortricidae spp.)
• turpentine of Chio
• turpentine of Cyprus
• turpentine tree
• turpentine weed (Gutierrezia sarothrae etc.)
• turpentinic
• Venetian turpentine, Venice turpentine
• white turpentine

 

Related terms

• terebic
• terebinth
• terpene

Translations

volatile essential oil

• Albanian: terpentinë (sq) f
• Arabic: تِرْبَنْتِين (tirbantīn), نَفْط m (nafṭ) (dated)
• Armenian: բեւեկն (hy) (bewekn), սկիպիդար (hy) (skipidar)
• Azerbaijani: skipidar
• Belarusian: шкіпіна́р m (škipinár), шпікіна́р m (špikinár), шпігіна́р m (špihinár), тарпаты́на f (tarpatýna)
• Bengali: তার্পিন (bn) (tarpin)
• Bulgarian: терпенти́н m (terpentín)
• Burmese: တာရပင်ဆီ (tara.panghci), ထင်းရှူးဆီ (my) (htang:hru:hci), တာပင်တိုင် (my) (tapangtuing)
• Catalan: aiguarràs (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 松節油／松节油 (zh) (sōngjiéyóu)

• Czech: terpentýn m
• Danish: terpentin c
• Dutch: terpentijn (nl) m
• Esperanto: terebinto (eo)
• Estonian: tärpentin, tärpentiin
• Finnish: tärpätti (fi)
• French: essence de térébenthine (fr) f, térébenthine (fr) f
• Georgian: კევი (ka) (ḳevi), სკიპიდარი (ka) (sḳiṗidari), ბელეკონი (ka) (beleḳoni)
• German: Terpentin (de) n
• Greek: τερεβινθίνη (el) f (terevinthíni), τερεβινθέλαιο (el) n (terevinthélaio), νέφτι (el) n (néfti)
• Gujarati: ટરપિથ (ṭarpith)
• Hawaiian: kapenekine
• Hebrew: טֶרפָּנטִין m (terpantín)
• Hindi: तारपीन (hi) m (tārpīn)
• Hungarian: terpentin (hu)
• Icelandic: terpentína (is) f
• Ido: terpentino (io)
• Indonesian: terpentin (id)
• Irish: tuirpintín m, ola bhí f, ola thuirpintín f
• Italian: acquaragia (it) f, trementina (it) f, essenza di trementina f
• Japanese: テレビン油 (テレビンゆ, terebin'yu), 松脂油 (まつやにあぶら, matsuyaniabura)
• Kazakh: скипидар (skipidar)
• Khmer: ជ័រស្រល់ (cɔə srɑl)
• Korean: 테레빈유 (terebinyu), 투르펜틴 (tureupentin), 송지유(松脂油) (ko) (songjiyu)
• Kyrgyz: скипидар (skipidar)
• Lao: ຢາງສົນ (yāng son)
• Latvian: terpentīns m
• Lithuanian: terpentinas m
• Macedonian: терпентин m (terpentin)
• Malay: turpentin
• Maori: hinu paina
• Nahuatl: oxitl
• Nepali: तारपिन (tārapina)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: terpentin m or n

  Nynorsk: terpentin m or n

• Ottoman Turkish: نفت یاغی (neft yağı), روغن نفت (revgan-ı neft, ruğan-ı neft), ترمنتین (terementin), ترمنتی (terementi)
• Persian: تِرِبانْتین (fa) (terebântin)
• Polish: terpentyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: terebintina (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਤਾਰਪੀਨ (tārpīn)
• Romanian: terebentină (ro) f
• Russian: скипида́р (ru) m (skipidár), терпенти́н (ru) m (terpentín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: терпѐнтӣн m

  Roman: terpèntīn (sh) m

• Slovak: terpentín m
• Slovene: terpentin (sl) m
• Spanish: aguarrás (es) m, trementina (es)
• Swahili: terafini
• Swedish: terpentin (sv) n
• Tagalog: agwaras (tl), lunay, turpentayn
• Tajik: скипидар (skipidar)
• Thai: น้ำมันสน (nám-man-sǒn)
• Turkish: terebentin (tr), terementi (tr), terementin
• Turkmen: skipidar
• Ukrainian: скипида́р m (skypydár), шпиґина́р m (špygynár) (dated), шпигина́р m (špyhynár) (dated), терпенти́на f (terpentýna)
• Urdu: تارپِین m (tārpīn)
• Uyghur: ئىسكىپدار (iskipdar)
• Uzbek: skipidar (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhựa thông

See also

• white spirit
• naval stores

Verb

turpentine (third-person singular simple present turpentines, present participle turpentining, simple past and past participle turpentined)

1. (transitive) To drain resin from (a tree) for use in making turpentine.

References

• “turpentine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.