lignite

lignite

See also: Lignite

English

Etymology

From French lignite, from Latin lignum (“firewood”) +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪɡnaɪ̯t/

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• enPR: lĭgnīt
• Rhymes: -aɪt

Noun

lignite (countable and uncountable, plural lignites)

1. A low-grade, brownish-black coal.

   Synonyms: brown coal, dirty coal

   • 1978 February 14, “Texas Turning to Its Reserves of Lignite”, in New York Times‎:

     Texas industry is turning to lignite, a kind of poor man's coal, to replace its dwindling allocations of natural gas. The Lone Star State now gets an estimated 12 percent of its electricity from lignite, and that figure is expected to double by 1985.

   • 2023 January 10, Kate Connolly, “Climate activists ‘prepared to risk lives’ to stop German coalmine”, in The Guardian‎:

     [Robert] Habeck, who has found himself in the extremely uncomfortable position of turning from a long-term campaigner against fossil fuels to a short-term defender of them, said: “Putin’s war of aggression is forcing us to temporarily make greater use of lignite so that we save gas in electricity generation. This is painful but necessary in view of the shortage of gas.”

Translations

coal

Afrikaans: bruinkool, ligniet Albanian: linjiti m Arabic: فحم بني‎ m (faḥm bunniyy) Armenian: լիգնիտ (hy) (lignit), գորշ ածուխ (hy) (gorš acux) Asturian: lignitu m Basque: lignito, ikatz arrea Belarusian: бу́ры ву́галь m (búry vúhalʹ), лігніт m (lihnit) Bengali: লিগনাইট (ligônaiṭ) Bulgarian: лигнит m (lignit) Burmese: ကျောက်မီးသွေးနု (kyaukmi:swe:nu.) Catalan: lignit m Chinese: Cantonese: 褐煤 (hot3 mui4) Mandarin: 褐煤 (zh) (hèméi (mainland China) / héméi (Taiwan)) Czech: hnědé uhlí n, lignit (cs) m Danish: brunkul (da) n Dutch: bruinkool (nl) m or f Esperanto: lignito (eo) Estonian: pruunsüsi Finnish: ruskohiili (fi) French: lignite (fr) m Galician: lignito (gl) m Georgian: მურა ნახშირი (mura naxširi) German: Braunkohle (de) f Greek: λιγνίτης (el) m (lignítis) Hebrew: ליגניט‎ m (lignit) Hindi: लिग्नाइट (lignāiṭ) Hungarian: barnaszén (hu), lignit (hu) Icelandic: surtarbrandur m, brúnkol n Ido: lignito (io) Indonesian: lignit (id) Irish: gual donn m Italian: lignite (it) f Japanese: 褐炭 (かったん, kattan), 亜炭 (あたん, atan) Kazakh: лигнит (lignit) Korean: 갈탄 (ko) (galtan), 아탄 (atan) Kyrgyz: күрөң көмүр (küröŋ kömür) Latin: lignitus m Latvian: lignīts m, brūnogles m Lithuanian: lignitas m, rusvoji anglis f Macedonian: ли́гнит m (lígnit) Malagasy: linita (mg) Mongolian: хүрэн нүүрс (xüren nüürs) Navajo: łeejin Norwegian: Bokmål: brunkull n, brunkol n Nynorsk: brunkol n Persian: زغال قهوه‌ای‎ (zoġâl qahve'i) Polish: węgiel brunatny (pl) m Portuguese: linhite f, lignite f, lignito m (Brazil), linhito m Romanian: lignit (ro) n, cărbune brun (ro) m Russian: бу́рый у́голь m (búryj úgolʹ), лигни́т (ru) m (lignít) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лѝгнӣт m Roman: lìgnīt (sh) m Slovak: hnedé uhlie n, lignit (sk) m Slovene: lignit m, rjavi premog (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: brunica f, bruny wugel m Upper Sorbian: brunica f, brune wuhlo n Spanish: lignito (es) m Swedish: brunkol (sv) n, lignit Telugu: లిగ్నైట్ (lignaiṭ) Thai: ลิกไนต์ (th) (lík-nai) Turkish: linyit (tr) Ukrainian: бу́ре вугі́лля n (búre vuhíllja), лігні́т m (lihnít) Uzbek: Cyrillic: лигнит (uz) (lignit) Roman: lignit Vietnamese: than nâu (vi)

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French

Etymology

From Latin lignum n (“firewood”) + -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ɲit/

• Audio

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Noun

lignite f (plural lignites)

1. lignite (type of coal)

Further reading

• “lignite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

lignite f (plural ligniti)

1. lignite

Related terms

• lignitico

Anagrams

• Gentili, gentili

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• lignito, linhito (Brazilian)

Noun

lignite f (plural lignites) (European spelling)

1. lignite (type of coal)

   Synonym: linhite