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English
Etymology
From Middle English durable, from Old French durable, from Latin dūrābilis (“lasting, permanent”), from dūrō (“harden, make hard”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
durable (comparative more durable, superlative most durable)
- Able to resist wear or decay; lasting; enduring.
durable economy
durable batteries
durable food
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Translations
able to resist wear; enduring
- Arabic: متين (ar)
- Armenian: դիմացկուն (hy) (dimacʻkun), տոկուն (hy) (tokun)
- Asturian: duraderu, durable
- Azerbaijani: etibarlı, davamlı, möhkəm (az) (of materials)
- Bulgarian: траен (bg) (traen), устойчив (bg) (ustojčiv)
- Catalan: durable (ca), durador (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (of goods) 耐用 (zh) (nàiyòng), 耐久 (zh) (nàijiǔ), (of clothing) 耐穿 (zh) (nàichuān)
- Danish: holdbar, slidstærk, varig
- Dutch: duurzaam (nl)
- Finnish: kestävä (fi), luja (fi)
- French: durable (fr)
- Galician: durable (gl), durábel (gl)
- Georgian: გამძლე (gamʒle)
- German: strapazierfähig, haltbar (de), dauerhaft (de)
- Greek: ανθεκτικός (el) (anthektikós), γερός (el) (gerós)
- Hungarian: tartós (hu)
- Irish: buanfasach
- Italian: durabile
- Japanese: 固い (ja) (katai), 強い (ja) (tsuyoi), 丈夫な (ja) (jōbu na)
- Latin: dūrābilis
- Macedonian: и́здржлив (ízdržliv)
- Maori: pūmau
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: slitesterk
- Nynorsk: slitesterk
- Plautdietsch: duarhauft
- Portuguese: duradouro (pt), duradoiro, durável (pt)
- Romanian: trainic (ro), durabil (ro)
- Russian: про́чный (ru) (próčnyj), надёжный (ru) (nadjóžnyj), сто́йкий (ru) (stójkij), долгове́чный (ru) (dolgovéčnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: maireannach, buan, seasmhach
- Spanish: duradero (es), durable (es), perdurable (es)
- Swedish: slitstark (sv), tålig (sv), hållbar (sv), varaktig (sv)
- Telugu: మన్నికైన (mannikaina)
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Noun
durable (plural durables)
- (economics) A durable thing, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
1989, Robert A. Pollak, The theory of the cost-of-living index, page 188:In a frictionless world with perfect rental markets, there is an unambiguous cost associated with the use of a durable for a single period.
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Anagrams
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin dūrābilis.
Adjective
durable (epicene, plural durables)
- durable (able to resist wear; enduring)
Bikol Central
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish durable.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: du‧rab‧le
- IPA(key): /duˈɾable/,
Adjective
duráble
- durable
- Synonym: kudat
Derived terms
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Catalan
Etymology
From Latin dūrābilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
durable m or f (masculine and feminine plural durables)
- durable
- Synonym: durador
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Further reading
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dūrābilis. See durer and -able.
Pronunciation
Adjective
durable (plural durables)
- durable
- sustainable
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Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin dūrābilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /duˈɾable/
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: du‧ra‧ble
Adjective
durable m or f (masculine and feminine plural durables)
- durable
- Synonyms: duradero, perdurable
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