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English
Etymology
From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.
Pronunciation
Noun
flint (countable and uncountable, plural flints)
- A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
He used flint to make a fire.
- A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
- A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
- A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
- (figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
Derived terms
Translations
hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
- Arabic: صَوَّان m (ṣawwān), ظُرَر m (ẓurar), قَدَّاح m (qaddāḥ)
- Armenian: կայծքար (hy) (kayckʻar)
- Bashkir: саҡматаш (saqmataş)
- Basque: sukarri
- Belarusian: крэ́мень m (krémjenʹ)
- Bulgarian: кре́мък (bg) m (krémǎk)
- Catalan: sílex (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 燧石 (zh) (suìshí)
- Czech: pazourek (cs) m
- Danish: ildsten, flint (da) c
- Dutch: vuursteen (nl) n, keisteen (nl) m
- Esperanto: siliko (eo), fajroŝtono
- Faroese: tinna f
- Finnish: piikivi (fi)
- French: silex (fr) m
- Galician: sílex m
- Georgian: კაჟი (ḳaži)
- German: (normal) Feuerstein (de) m; (dated, regional) Flintstein (de) m, Flint (de) m; (scientific, unusual) Silex m
- Greek:
- Cappadocian: κασκάρα (kaskára)
- Gujarati: ચકમક (cakmak)
- Haitian Creole: pyè
- Hebrew: צור (he) m (tsór)
- Hindi: चक़मक़ m or f (caqmaq), चकमक (hi) m (cakmak)
- Hungarian: kovakő (hu)
- Icelandic: tinna f
- Ingrian: piikivi
- Italian: selce (it)
- Japanese: 燧石 (ja) (ひうちいし, hiuchiishi, すいせき, suiseki)
- Kazakh: шақпақ (şaqpaq)
- Korean: 플린트 (peullinteu), 수석(燧石) (ko) (suseok)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بەردەستێ (berdestê), کوچکاوْر (kuçkawir)
- Northern Kurdish: berheste (ku)
- Latgalian: kroms
- Latin: silex (la)
- Latvian: krams (lv)
- Lithuanian: titnagas
- Macedonian: кремен m (kremen), белутрак m (belutrak)
- Maori: paea
- Maranao: batolakit
- Nahuatl: tecpatl (nah)
- Navajo: béésh
- Nepali: चकमक (ne) (cakamak)
- Newar: च्वल्वहं (cwalwahaṃ)
- Norman: pièrre à feu f
- Norwegian: flint (no)
- Occitan: pèira de fòc f, silèx (oc) m, pèira frejal f, pèira selze f
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: кремꙑ m (kremy)
- Old English: flint m
- Old Norse: tinna f
- Oneida: kanhya̲’
- Ossetian: ӕхсон (æxson)
- Ottoman Turkish: چاقماق طاشی (çakmak taşı)
- Pashto: چقمک
- Persian: چخماق (fa) (čaxmâq), آتشزنه (fa) (ātašzane)
- Plautdietsch: Fiasteen m
- Polish: krzemień (pl) m, krzemyk m
- Portuguese: sílex (pt)
- Romanian: silex (ro), cremene (ro) n
- Russian: креме́нь (ru) m (kreménʹ)
- Saanich: qentoles
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кре̏ме̄н m
- Latin: krȅmēn (sh) m
- Slovak: silicit, rohovec, pazúrik (sk), flint, buližník
- Slovene: kremen (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kśemjeń m
- Upper Sorbian: křemjeń m
- Spanish: pedernal (es) m, sílex
- Swedish: flinta (sv)
- Tagalog: panting
- Tarifit: taẓrut f
- Telugu: కిమిడి (kimiḍi)
- Thai: หินเหล็กไฟ (th) (hǐn-lèk-fai), หินไฟ (hǐn-fai)
- Turkish: çakmak taşı (tr)
- Ukrainian: кре́мінь m (kréminʹ)
- Vietnamese: đá lửa (vi)
- Volapük: flintoin (vo)
- Welsh: callestr (cy) m or f, fflint (cy) m or f
- Yiddish: פֿײַערשטיינ m (fayershteyn), קיזלשטיינ m (kizlshteyn)
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piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark
— see also firestriker
Translations to be checked
See also
Verb
flint (third-person singular simple present flints, present participle flinting, simple past and past participle flinted)
- (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Flint”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “flint”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
French
Noun
flint m (plural flints)
- flint glass
Middle English
Noun
flint
- Alternative form of flynt
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz
Pronunciation
Noun
flint m
- (stone) flint
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flint/
- Rhymes: -int
- Syllabification: flint
Noun
flint f
- genitive plural of flinta
Swedish
Etymology 1
Clipping of flintskalle.
Noun
flint c
- a bald head (or bald portion of the head)
Vilken flint han har fått!- My God, he has balded!
Declension
Etymology 2
Clipping of flintskallig.
Adjective
flint (comparative mer flint, superlative mest flint)
- (colloquial) bald
- Synonyms: (colloquial) flintis, flintskallig
Declension
Inflection of flint
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Indefinite
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Positive
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Comparative
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Superlative2
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Common singular
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flint
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mer flint
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mest flint
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Neuter singular
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flint
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mer flint
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mest flint
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Plural
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flinta
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mer flinta
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mest flinta
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Masculine plural3
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flinte
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mer flinta
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mest flinta
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Definite
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Positive
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Comparative
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Superlative
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Masculine singular1
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flinte
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mer flinte
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mest flinte
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All
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flinta
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mer flinta
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mest flinta
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1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic
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