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English
A basalt rock.
Etymology
From Late Latin basaltes , a misspelling of Latin basanites , from Ancient Greek βασανίτης ( basanítēs ) , from βάσανος ( básanos , “ touchstone ” ) , from Egyptian bḫn ( “ a hard stone ” ) ,[ 1]
Pronunciation
Noun
basalt (countable and uncountable , plural basalts )
( mineralogy ) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.
A type of unglazed pottery .
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Translations
hard rock
Albanian: bazalt m
Arabic: بَازَلْت m ( bāzalt )
Aragonese: basalto m
Armenian: բազալտ (hy) ( bazalt )
Asturian: basaltu m
Azerbaijani: bazalt
Basque: basalto
Belarusian: база́льт m ( bazálʹt )
Bulgarian: база́лт (bg) m ( bazált )
Catalan: basalt m
Chinese:
Hokkien: 玄武岩 ( hiân-bú-giâm )
Mandarin: 玄武岩 (zh) ( xuánwǔyán )
Czech: čedič (cs) m
Danish: basalt (da) c
Dutch: basalt (nl) n
Esperanto: bazalto
Estonian: basalt (et)
Faroese: basalt n , blágrýti n
Finnish: basaltti (fi)
French: basalte (fr)
Galician: basalto
Georgian: ბაზალტი ( bazalṭi )
German: Basalt (de) m
Greek: βασάλτης (el) m ( vasáltis )
Greenlandic: agiamineq , agiaq , basalti
Hebrew: בַּזֶּלֶת (he) m ( bazélet )
Hindi: बेसाल्ट ( besālṭ )
Hungarian: bazalt (hu)
Icelandic: basalt (is) , blágrýti (is) n
Ido: bazalto (io)
Indonesian: basalt
Irish: basalt m
Italian: basalto (it)
Japanese: 玄武岩 (ja) ( げんぶがん, genbugan )
Kazakh: базальт ( bazalt )
Khmer: ភូរាល ( phuuriəl ) , បាសាល ( baasaal ) , ថ្មបាសាល ( thmɑɑbaasaal )
Korean: 현무암(玄武巖) (ko) ( hyeonmuam )
Kyrgyz: базальт ( bazalt )
Latvian: bazalts m
Lithuanian: bazaltas (lt) m
Low German: basalt
Macedonian: базалт m ( bazalt )
Malay: basalt
Maori: karā , pakawera
Marathi: बसाल्ट खडक ( basālṭa khaḍak )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: basalt m
Nynorsk: basalt m
Persian: بازالت (fa) ( bâzâlt )
Polish: bazalt (pl) m
Portuguese: basalto (pt) m
Quechua: basaltu
Romanian: bazalt (ro) n
Russian: база́льт (ru) m ( bazálʹt )
Samogitian: bazalts
Scottish Gaelic: basalt
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ба̀залт m
Roman: bàzalt (sh) m
Slovak: bazalt m , čadič (sk) m
Slovene: bazalt (sl) m
Spanish: basalto (es) m
Sundanese: basalt
Swedish: basalt (sv) c
Tagalog: basalto , batumbakal
Tajik: базалт ( bazalt )
Thai: หินบะซอลต์ , บะซอลต์ ( bà-sɔ́l )
Turkish: bazalt (tr)
Ukrainian: база́льт (uk) m ( bazálʹt )
Uzbek: bazalt (uz)
Vietnamese: ba-zan , ba-dan
Welsh: basalt
Yiddish: באַזאַלט m ( bazalt )
References
^ Beekes (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Ancient Greek 203; Erman & Grapow (1971) Worterbuch der aegyptischen Sprache , 471
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Catalan
Etymology
From Late Latin basaltes .
Pronunciation
Noun
basalt m (plural basalts )
basalt
Derived terms
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French basalte , from Middle French basalte , from Late Latin basaltes , a misspelling of Latin basanites , from Ancient Greek βασανίτης ( basanítēs ) , from βάσανος ( básanos , “ touchstone ” ) , from Egyptian bḫn ( “ a hard stone ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /baːˈzɑlt/
Hyphenation: ba‧salt
Rhymes: -ɑlt
Noun
basalt n (uncountable )
basalt ( type of igneous rock )
Derived terms
Descendants
Faroese
Etymology
From Late Latin basaltes , a misspelling of Latin basanites , from Ancient Greek βασανίτης ( basanítēs ) , from βάσανος ( básanos , “ touchstone ” ) , from Egyptian bḫn ( “ a hard stone ” )
Pronunciation
Noun
basalt n (genitive singular basalts , uncountable )
( mineralogy ) basalt
Declension
Synonyms
Irish
Etymology
From Late Latin basaltes , a misspelling of Latin basanites , from Ancient Greek βασανίτης ( basanítēs ) , from βάσανος ( básanos , “ touchstone ” ) , from Egyptian bḫn ( “ a hard stone ” )
Noun
basalt m (genitive singular basailt )
( mineralogy ) basalt
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical
Lenition
Eclipsis
basalt
bhasalt
mbasalt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Late Latin basaltes , a misspelling of Latin basanites , from Ancient Greek βασανίτης ( basanítēs ) , from βάσανος ( básanos , “ touchstone ” ) , from Egyptian bḫn ( “ a hard stone ” )
Noun
basalt m (definite singular basalten , indefinite plural basalter , definite plural basaltene )
basalt
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Late Latin basaltes , a misspelling of Latin basanites , from Ancient Greek βασανίτης ( basanítēs ) , from βάσανος ( básanos , “ touchstone ” ) , from Egyptian bḫn ( “ a hard stone ” )
Noun
basalt m (definite singular basalten , indefinite plural basaltar , definite plural basaltane )
basalt
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