porcelain

English

Etymology

From French porcelaine 'cowrie, chinaware', from Italian porcellana 'cowrie, chinaware', from porcella, the mussel and cockle shells which painters put their pigments in, literally 'female piglet'.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpoʊɹ.sə.lɪn/, /ˈpɔɹ.sə.lɪn/, /ˈpoʊɹs.lɪn/, /ˈpɔɹs.lɪn/

Noun

Wikipedia porcelain (countable and uncountable; plural porcelains)

1. A hard, white, translucent ceramic that is made by firing kaolin and other materials; china.
2. Anything manufactured from this material..

Related terms

• porcelaneous

Translations

hard, white, translucent ceramic

• Afrikaans: porselein
• Arabic: خزف (ar) (kházaf) m
• Catalan: porcellana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓷器 (cmn) (cíqì), 瓷 (cmn) (cí)

• Czech: porcelán (cs) m
• Danish: porcelæn (da)
• Dutch: porselein (nl)
• Esperanto: porcelano
• Finnish: posliini (fi)
• French: porcelaine (fr)
• Galician: porcelana
• German: Porzellan (de) n
• Greek: πορσελάνη (el) (porselani) f
• Hebrew: חרסינה (he) (kharsina) f
• Hindi: चीनी मिट्टी के बरतन (hi) (cīnī miṭṭī kē baratan)
• Icelandic: postulín (is)
• Japanese: 磁器 (ja) (じき, jiki), 焼き物 (ja) (yakimono), ポースレン (ja) (pōsuren), 陶磁 (ja) (tōji)

• Luxembourgish: Parzeläin
• Norwegian: porselen
• Persian: پورسلین (fa) (porselin)
• Polish: porcelana (pl) f
• Portuguese: porcelana (pt) f
• Russian: фарфор (ru) (farfór) m
• Scots: cheenae
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: порцелан m

  Roman: porcelan m

• Slovak: porcelán (sk)
• Slovene: porcelan (sl) m
• Spanish: porcelana (es) f
• Swedish: porslin
• Turkish: porselen (tr)
• Urdu: چینی مٹی کے برتن (ur) (cīnī miṭṭī kē baratan)
• Vietnamese: sứ (vi)
• Welsh: porslen

anything manufactured from this material

• Afrikaans: porselein
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓷器 (cmn) (cíqì)

• Czech: porcelán (cs) m
• Danish: porcelæn (da)
• Dutch: porselein (nl)
• Esperanto: porcelano
• Finnish: posliini (fi)
• French: porcelaine (fr)
• Galician: porcelana
• German: Porzellan (de) n
• Hebrew: חרסינה (he)
• Icelandic: postulín (is)
• Japanese: 陶磁器 (ja) (tōjiki)

• Luxembourgish: Parzeläin
• Norwegian: porselen
• Persian: پورسلین (porselin)
• Polish: porcelana (pl) f
• Portuguese: porcelana (pt) f
• Russian: фарфор (ru) (farfór) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: порцелан m

  Roman: porcelan m

• Slovak: porcelán (sk)
• Slovene: porcelan (sl)
• Spanish: porcelana (es) f
• Swedish: porslin
• Turkish: porselen
• Welsh: porslen

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1]