asbestos

English

Asbestos fibers.

Etymology

From Old French abestos, from Latin asbestos, itself from Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos, “unquenchable, inextinguishable”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + σβέννυμι (sbénnumi, “I quench, quell”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /æs.ˈbɛs.tɒs/, /æs.ˈbɛs.təs/, /æz.ˈbɛs.təs/

Noun

asbestos (countable and uncountable, plural asbestoses)

(mineralogy) Any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate, used for fireproofing, electrical insulation, building materials, brake linings, chemical filters, suits, fireman's gloves, etc.
All types of asbestos are potentially carcinogenic when inhaled.
Asbestos insulation was once ubiquitous.
(mineralogy) Any of asbestos-like forms of several minerals, asbestiforms

Hyponyms

(forms of magnesium silicate): serpentine: parachrysotile, amianthus, common asbestos, chrysotile
- amphibole: blue asbestos, crocidolite, riebeckite; amosite, brown asbestos; crocidolite; tremolite/tremolite asbestos; actinolite/actinolite asbestos; anthophyllite/anthophyllite asbestos
(asbestiform): richterite, winchite

Coordinate terms

amianthus (a type of asbestos)

Derived terms

asbestiform
asbestosis
blue asbestos
brown asbestos
common asbestos
green asbestos
white asbestos

Translations

any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate

Arabic: أَسْبِسْتُوس‎ m (ʾasbistus), أَسْبِسْت‎ m (ʾasbist)
Armenian: ազբեստ (hy) (azbest)
Bulgarian: азбест (bg) (azbest), азбестов (azbestov) (attributive)
Burmese: ကျောက်ဂွမ်း (kyaukgwam:)
Catalan: asbest m, amiant (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 石棉 (zh) (shímián)
Czech: azbest m
Danish: asbest (da)
Dutch: asbest (nl) n, asbest- (attributive)
Esperanto: asbesto (eo)
Estonian: asbest (attributive)
Finnish: asbesti (fi)
French: amiante (fr) m, asbeste (fr) m
Georgian: აზბესტი (ka) (azbesṭi)
German: Asbest (de) m
Greek: αμίαντος (el) m (amíantos)
Hungarian: azbeszt (hu)
Irish: aispeist f, aispeiste (attributive)
Italian: asbesto (it) m, amianto (it) m
Japanese: 石綿 (ja) (いしわた, ishiwata, せきめん, sekimen), アスベスト (ja) (asubesuto)
Khmer: អាស្ប៊ែស (ʾaahbɛɛh)
Korean: 석면 (ko) (seongmyeon) (石綿 (ko)), 애스베스터스 (aeseubeseuteoseu)
Latvian: azbests m

Lithuanian: asbestas m
Maori: tēpoko
Mongolian: асбест (asbest)
Navajo: doołikoní
Norwegian:
Bokmål: asbest m
Nynorsk: asbest m
Polish: azbest (pl) m, azbestowy (pl) m (attributive)
Portuguese: asbesto m, amianto (pt) m
Romanian: azbest (ro) m
Russian: асбе́ст (ru) m (asbést), асбе́стовый (ru) (asbéstovyj) (attributive)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: а̀збест m, а̀збестнӣ (attributive)
Roman: àzbest (sh) m, àzbestnī (sh) (attributive)
Slovak: azbest (sk) m
Slovene: azbest (sl) m
Spanish: asbesto (es) m, amianto m
Swedish: asbest (sv)
Tagalog: asbesto
Tamil: கல்நார் (ta) (kalnār)
Thai: แร่ใยหิน (rɛ̂ɛ-yai-hǐn)
Tibetan: རྡོ་རྒྱུད (rdo rgyud)
Turkish: asbest (tr)
Vietnamese: miăng, amiăng

References

asbestos at OneLook Dictionary Search
asbestos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia