permafrost

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English

 permafrost on Wikipedia
Permafrost Kingdom, Yakutsk, Russia. Yakutsk is the world's largest city built on continuous permafrost.
Blue permafrost in Canada.

Etymology

From perma- +‎ frost.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɝməˌfɹɔst/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

permafrost (countable and uncountable, plural permafrosts)

  1. Permanently frozen ground, or a specific layer thereof.
    • 2003, Johannes C. Nonner, Introduction to Hydrogeology, →ISBN, page 157:
      Nevertheless, the water molecule is present, as ice, in a solid form in frozen soils or permafrosts, which cover large regions characterised by a polar climate.
    • 2015 July 21, Christopher R. Penton et al., “Denitrifying and diazotrophic community responses to artificial warming in permafrost and tallgrass prairie soils”, in Frontiers in Microbiology‎, volume 6, →DOI:
      In agreement with our overall trends within the permafrost samples, lower nirK and nirS and higher nosZ diversity have been identified in cryoturbated peat vs. unturbated peat soils (Palmer and Horn, 2012 ).

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English permafrost.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛr.maːˌfrɔst/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: per‧ma‧frost

Noun

permafrost m (uncountable)

  1. permafrost

French

Etymology

From perma- +‎ frost.

Noun

permafrost m (plural permafrosts)

  1. permafrost

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

From English permafrost.

Noun

permafrost m (definite singular permafrosten, uncountable)

  1. permafrost

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

Borrowed from English permafrost.

Noun

permafrost m (definite singular permafrosten, uncountable)

  1. permafrost

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /peʁ.maˈfɾɔs.t͡ʃi/ , /peʁ.maˈfɾɔst͡ʃ/
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /peɾ.maˈfɾɔs.t͡ʃi/, /peɾ.maˈfɾɔst͡ʃ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /peʁ.maˈfɾɔʃ.t͡ʃi/, /peʁ.maˈfɾɔʃt͡ʃ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peɻ.maˈfɾɔst͡ʃ/, /peɻ.maˈfɾɔs.t͡ʃi/

Noun

permafrost m (uncountable)

  1. (geology) permafrost (permanently frozen ground)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Permafrost or French permafrost.

Noun

permafrost n (plural permafrosturi)

  1. permafrost

Declension

Declension of permafrost
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative permafrost permafrostul permafrosturi permafrosturile
genitive-dative permafrost permafrostului permafrosturi permafrosturilor
vocative permafrostule permafrosturilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English permafrost.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peɾmaˈfɾost/
  • Rhymes: -ost
  • Syllabification: per‧ma‧frost

Noun

permafrost m (uncountable)

  1. (geology) permafrost
    Synonyms: permagel, permacongelamiento

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

permafrost c

  1. permafrost

Declension

Declension of permafrost
nominative genitive
singular indefinite permafrost permafrosts
definite permafrosten permafrostens
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

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