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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).
Pronunciation
Noun
carbon (countable and uncountable, plural carbons)
- (uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.
- (countable) An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
A methane molecule is made up of a single carbon with four hydrogens.
- (countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper.
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 51:He stepped back and opened his bag and took out a printed pad of D.O.A. forms and began to write over a carbon.
- (countable, informal) A carbon copy.
- A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
- (ecology, uncountable) carbon dioxide, in the context of climate change.
- carbon neutral
- A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
1892, English Mechanic and World of Science, page 444:To trim an arc lamp, first remove the old carbons and carefully and thoroughly wipe the carbon rods, holders, &c. with a clean, dry rag.
- A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.
- (informal) Ellipsis of carbon fiber (reinforced polymer).
- carbon bike frame
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Translations
chemical element
- Afrikaans: koolstof (af)
- Albanian: karboni m, karbon (sq) m (indefinite)
- Alemannic German: Kohlenstoff m
- Arabic: كَرْبُون m (karbūn)
- Armenian: ածխածին (hy) (acxacin)
- Asturian: carbonu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani:
- Abjad: مولدالفحم (muvallidulfahm), بموادالفحم (bimeyvadulfahm)
- Roman: karbon (az), uqlerod
- Banyumasan: karbon
- Basque: karbonoa
- Belarusian: вугляро́д m (vuhljaród)
- Bengali: অঙ্গার (bn) (oṅgar)
- Breton: karbon (br) m
- Bulgarian: въглеро́д (bg) m (vǎgleród)
- Burmese: ကာဗွန် (my) (kabwan)
- Catalan: carboni (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 碳 (taan3)
- Eastern Min: 碳 (táng)
- Hakka: 碳 (than)
- Hokkien: 炭素 (thoàⁿ-sò͘), 碳 (zh-min-nan) (thoàⁿ)
- Mandarin: 碳 (zh) (tàn)
- Wu: 碳 (5the)
- Cornish: karbon m
- Corsican: carboniu
- Czech: uhlík (cs) m
- Danish: carbon (da), karbon, kulstof (da) n
- Dutch: koolstof (nl) f or m
- Erzya: седь (śeď)
- Esperanto: karbono (eo)
- Estonian: süsinik (et)
- Farefare: bugsãane-kugre, bugsãan-kugre
- Farefare: bugsãan-kugre
- Faroese: kolevni n
- Finnish: hiili (fi)
- French: carbone (fr) m
- Friulian: carboni
- Galician: carbono (gl) m
- Georgian: ნახშირბადი (naxširbadi)
- German: Kohlenstoff (de) m
- Central Franconian: Kohlenstoff m
- Greek: άνθρακας (el) m (ánthrakas)
- Gujarati: કાર્બન (kārban)
- Haitian Creole: kabòn
- Hawaiian: kalepona
- Hebrew: פַּחְמָן (he) m (pakhmán)
- Hindi: प्रांगार (prāṅgār), कार्बन (hi) m (kārban), कारबन (hi) m (kārban)
- Hungarian: szén (hu)
- Icelandic: kolefni (is) n
- Ido: karbo (io)
- Indonesian: karbon (id), zat arang (id)
- Ingrian: ugleroda
- Interlingua: carbon
- Inuktitut: ᐸᐅᖅ (paoq)
- Irish: carbón (ga)
- Italian: carbonio (it) m
- Japanese: 炭素 (ja) (たんそ, tanso)
- Javanese: karbon
- Kannada: ಇಂಗಾಲ (kn) (iṅgāla)
- Kashubian: wãdźel m
- Kazakh: көміртек (kk) (kömırtek)
- Khmer: ការបោន (kaabaon), កាបូន (kaaboun)
- Korean: 탄소 (ko) (tanso)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: karbon (ku)
- Kyrgyz: көмүртек (kömürtek), углерод (uglerod)
- Lao: ຄາບອນ (khā bǭn)
- Latin: carbonium (la)
- Latvian: ogleklis (lv) m
- Limburgish: koolstof
- Lingala: kaboni
- Lithuanian: anglis (lt)
- Lombard: carbòni
- Low German: kohlenstoff
- Luhya: ekaboni
- Luxembourgish: Kuelestoff (lb) m
- Macedonian: јаглерод (jaglerod)
- Malay: karbon (ms)
- Malayalam: കാർബണ് (kāṟbaṇ), ഇംഗാലം (ml) (iṅgālaṁ)
- Maltese: karbonju (mt)
- Manx: carboan
- Maori: waro
- Marathi: कार्बन (kārban)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: нүүрстөрөгч (mn) (nüürstörögč)
- Mongolian: ᠨᠡᠭᠦᠷᠡᠰᠦᠲᠥᠷᠥᠭᠴᠢ (negüresütöröɣči)
- Nahuatl: tecolli (nah)
- Navajo: káábin
- Norwegian: karbon (no) n
- Nynorsk: karbon (nn)
- Occitan: carbòni (oc)
- Odia: ଅଙ୍ଗାରକ (ôṅgarôkô)
- Pashto: کاربون (ps) m (kārbón)
- Persian: کربن (fa) (karbon)
- Polish: węgiel (pl) m
- Portuguese: carbono (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਕਾਰਬਨ (pa) (kārban)
- Quechua: k'illimsayaq
- Romanian: carbon (ro) n
- Russian: углеро́д (ru) m (ugleród)
- Samogitian: onglis
- Sanskrit: कौकिलीय (kaukilīya), प्राङ्गार (prāṅgāra)
- Scottish Gaelic: gualan m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: угљеник m, у̀гљӣк m, ка̀рбо̄н m
- Roman: ugljenik m, ùgljīk (sh) m, kàrbōn (sh) m
- Sicilian: carbòniu
- Slovak: uhlík (sk) m
- Slovene: ogljik (sl) m
- Spanish: carbono (es) m
- Sundanese: karbon
- Swahili: kaboni (sw)
- Swedish: kol (sv) n
- Tagalog: karbono
- Tajik: карбон (karbon), углерод (uglerod)
- Tamil: கரிமம் (ta) (karimam)
- Telugu: కార్బన్ (te) (kārban)
- Thai: คาร์บอน (th) (kaa-bɔ̂n)
- Tibetan: སོལ་རྫས (sol rdzas)
- Turkish: karbon (tr)
- Turkmen: uglerod
- Ukrainian: вугле́ць m (vuhlécʹ)
- Upper Sorbian: wuhlik
- Uyghur: كاربون (ug) (karbon)
- Uzbek: uglerod (uz)
- Venetian: carbonio
- Vietnamese: cacbon
- Volapük: karbin (vo)
- Walloon: carbone (wa)
- Welsh: carbon (cy), ulwyn
- West Flemish: (please verify) carboun, (please verify) carbong
- West Frisian: koalstof
- Yiddish: קוילנשטאָף m (koylnshtof)
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fossil fuel made of impure carbon
carbon rod used in an arc lamp
carbon used as element in voltaic battery
Translations to be checked
Verb
carbon (third-person singular simple present carbons, present participle carboning, simple past and past participle carboned)
- (Internet, transitive, uncommon) To cause (someone) to receive a carbon copy of an email message.
- Synonyms: cc, copy
When I send it, I'll carbon Julia so she's aware.
See also
Further reading
Anagrams
Danish
Alternative forms
- karbon (rare, but now official)
Pronunciation
Noun
carbon n (singular definite carbonet, not used in plural form)
- (chemistry) carbon
- Synonym: kulstof
Usage notes
While kul (“coal”) is never used to refer to the element of carbon, it may sometimes replace it in names of derivations, such as kuldioxid/carbondioxid, kulsyre, kulilte/carbonmonoxid.
Declension
Further reading
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑrˈbɔn/
- Hyphenation: car‧bon
- Rhymes: -ɔn
Etymology 1
Probably borrowed from French carbone, ultimately from Latin carbō. The sense “fibre-reinforced polymer” derived from English carbon.
Noun
carbon n (uncountable, diminutive carbonnetje n)
- fibre-reinforced polymer
- black diamond
Etymology 2
From carbonpapier.
Noun
carbon n (uncountable, diminutive carbonnetje n)
- carbon paper
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to burn”). Doublet of cărbune.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /karˈbon/
- Hyphenation: car‧bon
Noun
carbon n (uncountable)
- carbon (chemical element)
Declension
declension of carbon (singular only)
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singular
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n gender
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indefinite articulation
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definite articulation
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nominative/accusative
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(un) carbon
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carbonul
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genitive/dative
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(unui) carbon
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carbonului
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vocative
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carbonule
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Further reading
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin carbō, carbōnem.
Noun
carbon m (genitive singular carboin, no plural)
- carbon (element)
- Synonym: gualan
Derived terms
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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carbon |
charbon
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from English carbon, from French carbone from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).
Pronunciation
Noun
carbon m (plural carbonau)
- carbon
- Synonym: (obsolete) ulyfai
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “carbon”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies