raw material

English

Noun

raw material (plural raw materials)

1. A material in its unprocessed, natural state considered usable for manufacture.

   Petroleum is the raw material refined into various fuels and needed for countless chemicals

2. (figuratively) Any input to a factory or other installation which processes it.

   The assembly plant's raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers.

Translations

material in its unprocessed, natural state

• Armenian: հումք (hy) (humk')
• Bashkir: сеймал (seymal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原料 (cmn) (yuánliào)

• Czech: surovina (cs) f
• Dutch: grondstof (nl) n
• Finnish: raaka-aine (fi)
• French: matière première (fr) f
• German: Rohstoff (de) m, Grundstoff (de) m
• Hungarian: nyersanyag (hu)

• Irish: abhábhar m, bunábhar m
• Italian: materia prima (it) f
• Japanese: 原料 (ja) (げんりょう, genryō)
• Portuguese: matéria-prima (pt) f
• Russian: сырьё (ru) (syrʹjó) n, необработанный материал (neobrabótannyj materiál) m
• Serbo-Croatian: сировина (sh) f, sirovina (sh) f
• Spanish: materia prima (es) f
• Swedish: råvara (sv) c, råmaterial (sv) n

input to an installation which processes is

• Dutch: grondstof (nl) n
• Finnish: raaka-aine (fi)
• Irish: abh- (prefix)

• Italian: materia prima (it) f
• Portuguese: matéria-prima (pt) f
• Swedish: råvara (sv) c, råmaterial (sv) n

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Translations to be checked

• Albanian: material i gjallë (sq) m
• Serbo-Croatian: sirovina (sh) f
• French: matière première (fr) f
• German: Rohmaterial (de) n, Grundstoff (de) m, Rohstoff m
• Indonesian: bahan mentah (id)

• Spanish: materia prima (es) f
• Swahili: mali ghafi (sg/pl)
• Telugu: ముడి సరుకు (muDi saruku)