soap in English: The thing you use with water to wash your body or clothes; it makes bubbles and cleans away dirt. (noun)

Translation

The thing you use with water to wash your body or clothes; it makes bubbles and cleans away dirt.

Word origin

From Old English sape, a word the Romans borrowed from the Germanic peoples as sapo.

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"Soap" is usually uncountable, so it takes no a and no plural.

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We use no or any with soap, not a.

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Here "this soap" means this kind or this bar of soap.

wash

To make something clean with water, and often with soap.

clean

To take away dirt from something so it is no longer dirty.

water

The clear liquid that falls as rain and that people and animals drink to live.

shower

A wash you take standing under falling water, or the thing on the wall that sends the water down.

bath

A long container that you fill with water to wash your whole body, and the wash itself. Americans usually call the container a bathtub.

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