pebble

English

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Pebbles on a beach.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈpɛb.əl/
• Rhymes: -ɛbəl

Noun

pebble (plural pebbles)

1. A small stone
2. (geology) A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
3. (curling) A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.

Translations

stone

• Afrikaans: spoelklippie, kiesel
• Catalan: còdol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 礫石 (cmn), 砾石 (cmn) (lìshí), 石子 (cmn) (shízǐ), 卵石 (cmn) (luǎnshí), 鵝卵石 (cmn), 鹅卵石 (cmn) (éluǎnshí)

• Czech: oblázek (cs) m
• Danish: ral (da)
• Dutch: kiezel (nl)
• Esperanto: ŝtoneto (eo)
• Estonian: veeris (et)
• Finnish: pikkukivi (fi)
• French: galet (fr) m (on a beach), caillou (fr) m
• Georgian: კენჭი (ka) (kenči)
• German: Kieselstein (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ψῆφος f

• Hindi: पथ्थर (hi) (patthar) m
• Hungarian: kavics (hu)
• Icelandic: steinn (is)
• Ido: stono (io)
• Indonesian: kerikil (id)
• Irish: méaróg (ga) f

• Italian: ciottolo (it) m
• Japanese: 小石 (ja) (こいし, koishi)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Jèrriais: galet m, galot m
• Korean: 자갈 (ko) (jagal)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: زیخ (ku) (zix)

• Latin: calculus (la) m, lapillus (la) m
• Macedonian: чакал (mk) (čakal) m
• Maltese: ċagħqa (mt) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: småstein (nb) m, småsten (nb) m

  Nynorsk: småstein (nn) m

• Polish: kamyk m
• Portuguese: seixo (pt), pedregulho (pt) m, pedrinha (pt) f
• Romanian: pietriş (ro) m, prundíș (ro) m
• Russian: галька (ru) (gálʹka) f
• Scottish Gaelic: dèideag (gd) f
• Spanish: guijarro (es) m
• Swedish: småsten (sv) c
• Thai: กรวด (th) (grùat)

rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter

• Macedonian: чакал (mk) (čakal) m, грагор (mk) (gragor) m
• Norwegian: grus (no) m, pukk (no)

• Polish: otoczak (pl) m

small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice

Verb

pebble (third-person singular simple present pebbles, present participle pebbling, simple past and past participle pebbled)

1. To pave with pebbles.
2. (curling) To deposit water droplets on the ice. e.g. to pebble the ice between games.

Translations

To pave with pebbles

• Finnish: päällystää mukulakivillä
• Italian: acciottolare (it)

• Norwegian: gruslegge (no)

To deposit water droplets on the ice