basalt

basalt

See also: Basalt

English

A basalt rock.

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”),[1]

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbæs.ɒlt/, /ˈbæs.əlt/, /ˈbæs.ɔːlt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bəˈsɔlt/, /ˈbæs.ɔlt/, /ˈbeɪˌsɔlt/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /bəˈsɑlt/, /ˈbæs.ɑlt/, /ˈbeɪˌsɑlt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbæs.ɒlt/, /ˈbæs.ɑlt/

• Audio (UK)

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• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: bas‧alt

Noun

basalt (countable and uncountable, plural basalts)

1. (mineralogy) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.
2. A type of unglazed pottery.

Hypernyms

• molten rock

Hyponyms

• flood basalt

Derived terms

• alkali basalt
• basaltic
• basaltiform
• basaltoid
• basaltware
• metabasalt
• nonbasalt
• picrobasalt
• trachybasalt

 

Translations

hard rock

Albanian: bazalt m Arabic: بَازَلْت‎ m (bāzalt) Aragonese: basalto m Armenian: բազալտ (hy) (bazalt) Asturian: basaltu m Azerbaijani: bazalt Basque: basalto Belarusian: база́льт m (bazálʹt) Bulgarian: база́лт (bg) m (bazált) Catalan: basalt m Chinese: Mandarin: 玄武岩 (zh) (xuánwǔyán) Min Nan: 玄武岩 (hiân-bú-giâm) Czech: čedič (cs) m Danish: basalt (da) c Dutch: basalt (nl) n Esperanto: bazalto Estonian: basalt (et) Faroese: basalt n, blágrýti n Finnish: basaltti (fi) French: basalte (fr) Galician: basalto Georgian: ბაზალტი (bazalṭi) German: Basalt (de) m Greenlandic: agiamineq, agiaq, basalti Hebrew: בַּזֶּלֶת‎ (he) m (bazélet) Hindi: बेसाल्ट (besālṭ) Hungarian: bazalt (hu) Icelandic: basalt (is) Ido: bazalto (io) Indonesian: basalt Irish: basalt m Italian: basalto (it) Japanese: 玄武岩 (ja) (げんぶがん, genbugan) Kazakh: базальт (bazalt) Khmer: ភូរាល (phuuriəl), បាសាល (baasaal), ថ្មបាសាល (thmɑɑbaasaal) Korean: 현무암(玄武巖) (ko) (hyeonmuam) Kyrgyz: базальт (bazalʹt) Latvian: bazalts m Lithuanian: bazaltas m Low German: basalt Macedonian: базалт m (bazalt) Malay: basalt Maori: karā, pakawera Marathi: बसाल्ट खडक (basālṭa khaḍak) Norwegian: Bokmål: basalt m Nynorsk: basalt m Persian: بازالت‎ (fa) (bâzâlt) Polish: bazalt (pl) m Portuguese: basalto (pt) m Quechua: basaltu Romanian: bazalt (ro) n Russian: база́льт (ru) m (bazálʹt) Samogitian: bazalts Scottish Gaelic: basalt Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ба̀залт m Roman: bàzalt (sh) m Slovak: bazalt m, čadič (sk) m Slovene: bazalt (sl) m Spanish: basalto (es) m Sundanese: basalt Swedish: basalt (sv) c Tagalog: basalto, batumbakal Tajik: базалт (bazalt) Thai: หินบะซอลต์, บะซอลต์ (bà-sɔ́l) Turkish: bazalt (tr) Ukrainian: база́льт (uk) m (bazálʹt) Uzbek: bazalt (uz) Vietnamese: ba-zan, ba-dan Welsh: basalt Yiddish: באַזאַלט‎ m (bazalt)

References

1. Beekes (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Ancient Greek 203; Erman & Grapow (1971) Worterbuch der aegyptischen Sprache, 471

Anagrams

• Labats, Tablas, tablas, talabs

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Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /bəˈzalt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bəˈzal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /baˈzalt/

Noun

basalt m (plural basalts)

1. basalt

Further reading

• “basalt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “basalt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “basalt” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “basalt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French basalte, from Middle French basalte, from Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːˈzɑlt/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ba‧salt
• Rhymes: -ɑlt

Noun

basalt n (uncountable)

1. basalt (type of igneous rock)

Derived terms

• basaltblok
• basalten

Descendants

• → Indonesian: basal

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Faroese

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paˈsal̥t]

Noun

basalt n (genitive singular basalts, uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) A hard rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, it makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.

Declension

Declension of basalt (singular only)
n3s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	basalt	basaltið
accusative	basalt	basaltið
dative	basalti	basaltinum
genitive	basalts	basaltsins

Synonyms

• blágrýti n

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Irish

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (genitive singular basailt)

1. (mineralogy) basalt

Declension

Declension of basalt

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative basalt Vocative a bhasailt Genitive basailt Dative basalt

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an basalt Genitive an bhasailt Dative leis an mbasalt don bhasalt

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
basalt	bhasalt	mbasalt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “basalt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “basalt” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (definite singular basalten, indefinite plural basalter, definite plural basaltene)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basaltisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (definite singular basalten, indefinite plural basaltar, definite plural basaltane)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basaltisk