dynamite

See also dynamité

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Coined by Nobel, the inventor. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dunamis, “power”) +‎ -ite, possibly under the influence of dynamo or dynamic.

Noun

dynamite (uncountable)

1. A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting; invented by Alfred Nobel in 1867.
2. (figuratively) Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful.

Synonyms

• nitro

Translations

class of explosives

• Afrikaans: dinamiet (af)
• Albanian: dinamit (sq) m
• Arabic: ديناميت (ar) (dinamit) m
• Armenian: ուժանակ (hy) (užanak)
• Azeri: dinamit (az)
• Basque: dinamita (eu)
• Belarusian: дынаміт (be) (dynamít) m
• Bulgarian: динамит (bg) (dinamít) m
• Catalan: dinamita (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 炸藥 (cmn), 炸药 (cmn) (zhàyào)

• Czech: dynamit (cs) n
• Danish: dynamit (da) n
• Dutch: dynamiet (nl) n
• Esperanto: dinamito (eo)
• Estonian: dünamiit (et)
• Finnish: dynamiitti (fi)
• Galician: dinamita (gl) f
• Georgian: დინამიტი (ka) (dinamiti)
• German: Dynamit (de) n
• Hindi: बारूद (hi) (bārūd) f
• Hungarian: dinamit (hu)
• Japanese: ダイナマイト (ja) (dainamaito)
• Korean: 다이너마이트 (ko) (daineomaiteu)
• Lao: ດິນລະເບີດ (lo) (din laboed)

• Latvian: dinamīts (lv) f
• Lithuanian: dinamitas (lt) f
• Macedonian: динамит (mk) (dinamit) m
• Malay: dinamit (ms)
• Norwegian: dynamitt (no) n, sprengstoff (no) n
• Persian: دینامیت (fa) (dinâmit)
• Polish: dynamit (pl) m
• Portuguese: dinamite (pt)
• Romanian: dinamită (ro)
• Russian: динамит (ru) (dinamít) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: динамит (sh) m

  Roman: dinamit (sh) m

• Spanish: dinamita (es) f
• Swahili: baruti (sw)
• Swedish: dynamit (sv) n
• Tagalog: dinamita (tl)
• Tamil: டைனமைட் (ta) (ṭaiṉamaiṭ)
• Telugu: డైనమైటు (te) (dainamaiṭu)
• Turkish: dinamit (tr)
• Ukrainian: динаміт (uk) (dynamít) m
• Urdu: باروت (ur) (bārūt) f, بارود (ur) (bārūd) f
• Vietnamese: mìn (vi), đinamit (vi)
• Welsh: deinameit (cy) f
• Yiddish: דיינאַמייט (yi) (dyynʼamyyt) f

figuratively

• German: Sprengstoff (de) m

Verb

dynamite (third-person singular simple present dynamites, present participle dynamiting, simple past and past participle dynamited)

1. To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.

Translations

to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive

• Dutch: dynamiteren (nl)
• French: dynamiter (fr)

• Spanish: dinamitar (es)

See also

• cordite

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Pronunciation

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• Homophones: dynamitent, dynamites

Verb

dynamite

1. first-person singular present indicative of dynamiter
2. third-person singular present indicative of dynamiter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of dynamiter
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of dynamiter
5. second-person singular imperative of dynamiter