basalt

See also Basalt

English

A basalt rock.

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Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA: /ˈbæsɒlt/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈbæsəlt/
• (US) IPA: /bəˈsɑːlt/, IPA: /ˈbeɪsɔːlt/

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Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanitēs), from βάσανος (basanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian

bawḥan 'slate'.

Noun

basalt (plural basalts)

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

Derived terms

• basaltic

Translations

hard rock

• Albanian: bazalti (sq)
• Arabic: بازلت (ar) (bazaalt) m
• Aragonese: basalto (an) m
• Armenian: բազալտ (hy) (bazalt)
• Asturian: basaltu (ast) m
• Basque: basalto (eu)
• Belarusian: базальт (be) (bazál’t) m
• Bulgarian: базалт (bg) (bazált) m
• Catalan: basalt (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玄武岩 (cmn) (xuánwǔyán)

  Min Nan: hiân-bú-giâm (nan)

• Czech: čedič (cs) m
• Danish: basalt (da)
• Dutch: basalt (nl)
• Esperanto: bazalto (eo)
• Estonian: basalt (et)
• Faroese: basalt (fo) n, blágrýti (fo) n
• Finnish: basaltti (fi)
• French: basalte (fr)
• Galician: basalto (gl)
• German: Basalt (de) m
• Greenlandic: agiamineq (kl), agiaq (kl), basalti (kl)
• Hebrew: בזלת (he)
• Hungarian: bazalt (hu)
• Icelandic: basalt (is)
• Ido: bazalto (io)
• Irish: basalt (ga)
• Italian: basalto (it)

• Japanese: 玄武岩 (ja) (げんぶがん, genbugan)
• Korean: 현무암 (ko) (hyeonmuam)
• Lithuanian: bazaltas (lt)
• Low German: basalt (nds)
• Macedonian: базалт (mk) (bazalt) m
• Maori: karā (mi)
• Marathi: बसाल्ट खडक (mr)
• Norwegian: basalt (no)
• Persian: بازالت (fa) (bâzâlt)
• Polish: bazalt (pl) m
• Portuguese: basalto (pt) m
• Quechua: basaltu (qu)
• Romanian: bazalt (ro)
• Russian: базальт (ru) (bazál’t) m
• Samogitian: bazalts
• Scottish Gaelic: basalt (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: базалт (sh) m

  Roman: bazalt (sh) m

• Slovak: bazalt (sk) m
• Slovene: bazalt (sl) m
• Spanish: basalto (es) m
• Sundanese: basalt (su)
• Swedish: basalt (sv)
• Tagalog: basalto (tl)
• Thai: หินบะซอลต์ (th) (hĭn bàson)
• Turkish: bazalt (tr)
• Ukrainian: базальт (uk) (bazál’t) m
• Vietnamese: đá bazan (vi)
• Welsh: basalt (cy)

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Pronunciation

• IPA: [paˈsal̥t]

Etymology

From Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanitēs), from βάσανος (basanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian

bauhan 'slate'.

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

n3s	Singular
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	basalt	basaltið
Accusative	basalt	basaltið
Dative	basalti	basaltinum
Genitive	basalts	basaltsins

Synonyms

• blágrýti