English
Stones.
Etymology
From Middle English ston , stone , stan , from Old English stān , from Proto-West Germanic *stain , from Proto-Germanic *stainaz , from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- ( “ to stiffen ” ) .
See also Dutch steen , German Stein , Danish and Swedish sten , Norwegian stein ; also Russian стена́ ( stená , “ wall ” ) , Ancient Greek στία ( stía , “ pebble ” ) , στέαρ ( stéar , “ tallow ” ) , Persian ستون ( sotūn , “ pillar ” ) , Albanian shtëng ( “ hardened or pressed matter ” ) , Sanskrit स्त्यायते ( styāyate , “ it hardens ” ) ). Doublet of stein .
Pronunciation
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Rhymes: -əʊn
Noun
stone (countable and uncountable , plural stones or ( as unit of mass ) stone )
( uncountable ) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks .
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Macbeth ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ ward] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act IV, scene i] , page 143 , column 2:Toad, that vnder cold ſtone , / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot.
1858 , Edward Thornton, A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East India Company and of the Native States on the Continent of India [1] , W. H. Allen & Co. , page 22 :It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone , and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it.
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting ”, in The Economist , volume 407 , number 8839 , page 55 :The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
A small piece of stone, a pebble .
A gemstone , a jewel , especially a diamond .
c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: [ … ] ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ ward] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act I, scene iv] , page 180 , column 1:[ …] Ineſtimable Stones , vnvalewed Iewels [ …]
( British ) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms ), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight .
1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia , page 202 :Seven pounds make a clove , 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod , 6+ 1 ⁄ 2 tods a wey , 2 weys a sack , 12 sacks a last . [ …] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume IV, page 209 :Generally, however, the stone or petra , almost always of 14 lbs ., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones.
1992 October 3, Edwina Currie , Diary:
Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb , a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.
( botany ) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes ; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
a peach stone
( medicine ) A hard, stone-like deposit .
Synonym: calculus
Hyponyms: kidney stone , nephrolith , gallstone , cholelith , sialolith , urolith
( board games ) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go .
A dull light grey or beige , like that of some stones.
stone:
( curling ) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone .
1717 , Alexander Pope , “Eloisa to Abelard ”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope [2] , volume II, London: [ … ] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver [ … ] , published 1717 , →OCLC , page 434 :Amid that scene, if ſome relenting eye Glance on the ſtone where our cold reliques lie.
2013 November 25, Zayn Malik , “Story of My Life”, in Midnight Memories , Columbia Records; Syco Music:It seems to me that when I die / These words will be written on my stone [ …]
( obsolete ) A mirror , or its glass .
c. 1603–1606 , William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ ward] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act V, scene iii] , page 309 , column 1:She's dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glaſſe; / If that her breath will miſt or ſtaine the ſtone , / Why then ſhe liues.
( obsolete ) A testicle .
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ ward] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act I, scene iii] , page 56 , column 1:[ …] and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels ſtone ?
1750 , W[illiam] Ellis , The Country Housewife's Family Companion [ …] , London: James Hodges; B. Collins, →OCLC , page 157 :To make Capons [ …] ſome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done.
( printing , historical ) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
Synonym: imposing stone
1965 , George Murray, The Madhouse on Madison Street (page 38)
The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone , pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake.
Usage notes
All countable senses use the regular plural stones except the British unit of mass, which uses the invariant plural stone .
Synonyms
Descendants
Translations
substance
Abkhaz: ахацə ( axacə )
Afar: xaa
Aghwan: 𐔻𐔴 ( źe )
Aguaruna: kaya
Ainu: スマ ( suma )
Akan: ɛboɔ , ɔboɔ
Akkadian: 𒉌𒌓
Aklanon: bato
Albanian: gur (sq) m
Ama: tomoki
Amis: fokeloh
Apinayé: kẽn
Arabic: حَجَر (ar) m ( ḥajar )
Egyptian Arabic: حجر m ( ḥagar )
Armenian: քար (hy) ( kʻar )
Aromanian: cheatrã , chiatrã
Assamese: পাথৰ ( pathor ) , শিল ( xil )
Asturian: piedra (ast) f
Atayal: btunux
Aukan: siton
Avar: гамачӏ ( gamačʼ ) , кьуру ( kkˡʼuru )
Avestan: 𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬥 ( asan ) , 𐬀𐬯𐬆𐬥𐬔𐬀 ( asənga )
Azerbaijani: daş (az)
Baekje: 珍惡 ( durak )
Bakhtiari: برد ( bard )
Baluchi: سنگ ( sang, sing )
Bashkir: таш ( taş )
Basque: harri
Belarusian: ка́мень (be) m ( kámjenʹ )
Bengali: পাথর ( pathor )
Bezhta: кьало ( kˡʼalo ) , шед ( šed )
Bhojpuri: 𑂣𑂞𑂹𑂟𑂪 ( patthal ) , 𑂣𑂰𑂟𑂩 ( pāthar )
Brahui: خَل ( xal )
Breton: maen (br) m , mein (br) pl
Brunei Malay: batu
Bulgarian: ка́мък (bg) m ( kámǎk )
Bunun: batu
Burmese: ကျောက် (my) ( kyauk )
Buryat: шулуун ( šuluun )
Catalan: pedra (ca) f , roca (ca) f
Catawba: iti , inti
Cebuano: bato
Chambri: kẽn
Chamicuro: chena
Chechen: тӏулг ( tʼulg ) , тарх ( tarx )
Cherokee: ᏅᏳ (chr) ( nvyu )
Chichewa: mwala
Chickasaw: tali'
Chinese:
Dungan: шыту ( šɨtu )
Mandarin: 石 (zh) ( shí ) , 石頭 / 石头 (zh) ( shítou ) , 石头 (zh) ( shítou )
Chuvash: чул ( čul )
Corsican: petra (co) f
Czech: kámen (cs) m
Dagbani: kuɣli
Dalmatian: pitra f
Danish: sten (da) c
Dargwa: къаркъа ( ɢarɢa )
Dolgan: таас
Drung: lung
Dupaningan Agta: pugedu
Dutch: steen (nl) m
Dzongkha: རྡོ ( rdo )
Egyptian: (jnr )
Eshtehardi: سینگ ( sing )
Esperanto: ŝtono (eo)
Estonian: kivi (et)
Even: дёл ( ʒol )
Evenki: дёло ( ʒolo )
Extremaduran: paira f
Faroese: steinur (fo) m
Fiji Hindi: patthar (hif)
Finnish: kivi (fi)
French: pierre (fr) f , roche (fr) f
Friulian: piere f
Galibi Carib: tupo
Galician: pedra (gl) f
Ge'ez: እብን ( ʾəbn )
Georgian: ქვა ( kva )
German: Stein (de) m
Alemannic German: Stain
Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 m ( stains )
Greek: λίθος (el) m ( líthos )
Ancient: λίθος m ( líthos ) , πέτρα f ( pétra ) , λᾶας m ( lâas ) ( Epic )
Greenlandic: ujarak
Guaraní: ita
Hawaiian: pōhaku
Hebrew: אֶבֶן (he) f ( éven )
Higaonon: bato
Hiligaynon: bato
Hindi: पत्थर (hi) m ( patthar ) , शिला (hi) ( śilā ) , रोड़ा (hi) ( roṛā ) , हजर (hi) m ( hajar ) , संग (hi) m ( saṅg ) , शिल (hi) f ( śil ) , सिल (hi) f ( sil )
Hinukh: гамачӏ ( gamačʼ ) , лъад ( ɬad )
Hungarian: kő (hu)
Hunsrik: Steen m , xtayn
Hunzib: гамачӏ ( gamačʼ ) , кьа̇лу ( ƛ̄ʼɑlu )
Icelandic: steinn (is) m
Ido: petro (io)
Ilocano: bato
Indonesian: batu (id)
Interlingua: petra
Irish: cloch (ga) f
Istriot: pera f
Italian: pietra (it) f , roccia (it) f
Japanese: 石 (ja) ( ishi )
Javanese: watu (jv) , séla
Jurchen: wehe
Kaingang: pó
Kalmyk: чолуун ( çoluun )
Kapampangan batú
Kanakanabu: vatu
Kaqchikel: ab’äj
Kashubian: kam
Kato: se
Kavalan: bettu
Kayapó: kẽn
Kazakh: тас (kk) ( tas )
Khinalug: мыда ( mɨda ) , къайа ( qːaja ) , кӏачӏын ( ḳač̣ɨn )
Khmer: ថ្ម (km) ( tmɑɑ )
Komi-Permyak: из ( iz )
Korean: 돌 (ko) ( dol )
Krahô: kẽn
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بهرد ( bhird ) , بەرد (ckb) ( berd )
Northern Kurdish: kevir (ku) , ber (ku) , berd (ku) , kuç (ku)
Ladakhi: རྡོ་བ ( rdo ba )
Lak: чару ( čaru ) , ххяли ( x:aˤli )
Lao: ຫີນ (lo) ( hīn )
Latgalian: akmiņs
Latin: lapis (la) m , petra f
Latvian: akmens m
Lezgi: къван ( q̄van )
Limburgish: stein (li)
Lithuanian: akmuo (lt) m
Livonian: kiv
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: steen (nds) m
German Low German: Steen (nds) m
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Luhya: libale
Luxembourgish: Steen (lb) m
Macedonian: камен m ( kamen )
Magahi: 𑂣𑂞𑂹𑂟𑂪 ( patthal )
Maithili: पाथर ( pāthar ) , पाहन ( pāhan )
Malagasy: vato (mg)
Malay: batu (ms)
Malayalam: കല്ല് (ml) ( kallŭ )
Manchu: ᠸᡝᡥᡝ ( wehe )
Manx: clagh
Maori: whatu
Maranao: wato , bato
Middle English: ston
Middle Persian: sng ( sang )
Miyako: 石 ( isu )
Mohawk: onén:ia
Mongolian: чулуу (mn) ( čuluu )
Mwani: mwala , riwe
Nahuatl: tetl (nah)
Nanai: дёло ( ʒolo )
Navajo: tsé
Negidal: ӡolo
Nekgini: si
Nepali: ढुङ्गा ( ḍhuṅgā )
Norman: pièrre f ( Jersey )
North Frisian: stian m ( Föhr-Amrum )
Northern Sami: geađgi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stein (no) m , sten (no) m
Nynorsk: stein (nn) m
Occitan: pèira (oc) f , ròca (oc) f
Ojibwe: asin
Okinawan: 石 ( ishi )
Old Church Slavonic: камꙑ m ( kamy )
Old English: stān m
Old Japanese: 石 ( isi )
Old Javanese: watu
Old Norse: steinn m
Old Persian: [script needed] ( aθaⁿga- ) , [script needed] ( asan- )
Old Turkic: 𐱃𐱁 ( t¹š )
Oriya: ପଥର (or) ( pathara )
Oroch: дёло
Orok: ӡоло ( ʒolo )
Oromo: dhagaa
Oroqen: dʒɔlɔ
Ossetian: дур ( dur )
Ottoman Turkish: طاش ( taş ) , جندل ( cendel )
Paiwan: qaciljai
Palauan: bad
Panará: kjẽn
Parthian: 𐫀𐫘𐫗𐫃 ( ʾsng )
Pará Gavião: kẽn
Persian: سنگ (fa) ( sang ) , برد (fa) ( bard )
Phoenician: 𐤀𐤁𐤍 ( ʾbn )
Pirahã: xaxái
Pitjantjatjara: apu , puḻi
Polish: kamień (pl) m
Portuguese: pedra (pt) f , rocha (pt) f
Purepecha: tsakapu
Puyuma: barasa
Pykobjê: quẽn
Quechua: rumi
Rabha: ৰংকা
Rhine Franconian: Schdää
Rohingya: fattór
Romanian: piatră (ro) f
Romansch: crap m
Rukai: lrenege
Russian: ка́мень (ru) m ( kámenʹ )
Saaroa: vatu'u
Saho: dhaa
Saisiyat: bato'
Sakizaya: ba'tu
Sanskrit: शिला (sa) f ( śilā ) , पाषी (sa) f ( pāṣī )
Santali: ᱫᱷᱤᱨᱤ ( dhiri )
Sardinian: pedra
Logudorese: preda f
Scots: stane
Scottish Gaelic: clach f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̏ме̄н m
Roman: kȁmēn (sh) m
Seychellois Creole: pyer
Sherpa: རྡོ ( rdo )
Sicilian: petra (scn)
Sidamo: kina
Sinhalese: ගල් ( gal )
Slovak: kameň m
Slovene: kamen (sl) m
Solon: дёло
Somali: dhagax
Spanish: piedra (es) f , roca (es) f
Suyá: khẽnẽ
Swabian: stoe , Schdõẽ
Swahili: jiwe (sw)
Swedish: sten (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠕ꠆ꠕꠞ ( fat́tór ) , ꠢꠤꠟ ( hil )
Tagalog: bato (tl)
Tajik: санг (tg) ( sang )
Takia: pat
Tamil: கல் (ta) ( kal )
Tapayuna: khẽnẽ
Tausug: batu
Telugu: రాయి (te) ( rāyi )
Tetum: fatuk
Thai: หิน (th) ( hǐn ) , ศิลา (th) ( sì-laa )
Thao: fatu
Tibetan: རྡོ ( rdo )
Tocharian B: kärweñe
Tsez: гъӏул ( ɣˤul ) , лъад ( ɬad ) , гуз ( guz )
Tsou: fatu
Tupinambá: itá
Turkish: taş (tr)
Tuvan: даш ( daş )
Udi: жӏеъ ( ž:e̱ )
Udihe: ӡоло
Udmurt: из ( iz )
Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎁𐎐 ( ảbn )
Ukrainian: ка́мінь (uk) m ( káminʹ )
Ulch: ӡolo
Urdu: پتھر m ( patthar ) , شلا f ( śilā )
Uyghur: تاش (ug) ( tash )
Uzbek: tosh (uz)
Venetian: piera f , pièra (vec) f , piéra , pria , prèa , rocia f
Vietnamese: đá (vi)
Volapük: ston (vo)
Walloon: pire (wa) f , rotche (wa) f
Welsh: carreg (cy) f
West Frisian: stien (fy) m
Wolof: xeer wi
Xavante: ẽtẽ , ẽnẽ
Xerénte: ktẽ
Xokleng: kózy
Yaeyama: 石 ( isï )
Yakut: таас ( taas )
Yami: vato , veysen
Yiddish: שטיין m ( shteyn )
Yonaguni: 石 ( ichi )
Yoruba: òkúta
Yucatec Maya: tuunich , tuunichoob pl
Yámana: aiya
Zealandic: steên
Zulu: itshe class 5
small piece of stone
Abaza: хӏахъвы́ ( ḥaqʷə́ )
Abkhaz: а-ха́ҳә ( a-xáḥʷ )
Adyghe: мыжъо ( məžʷo )
Albanian: gur (sq) m
Apache:
Chiricahua Apache: tsé
Jicarilla Apache: tsé
Lipan Apache: tsí
Plains Apache: tséé
Western Apache: tsé , tséé
Arabic: حجر (ar) m ( ḥajar ) , حصى m ( ḥaṣā )
Egyptian Arabic: طوبة f ( ṭoba )
Moroccan Arabic: حجر m ( ḥjar ) , حجرة f ( ḥajra )
Armenian: քար (hy) ( kʻar )
Asturian: piedra (ast) f
Avar: гамачӏ ( gamačʼ )
Azerbaijani: daş (az)
Bashkir: таш ( taş )
Bats: ჴერ ( qer )
Belarusian: ка́мень (be) m ( kámjenʹ )
Bengali: পাথর ( pathor )
Breton: kailhenn f
Bulgarian: ка́мък (bg) m ( kámǎk )
Burmese: ကျောက် (my) ( kyauk )
Buryat: шулуун ( šuluun ) ( Russian Buryat )
Catalan: pedra (ca) f
Chagatai: تاش
Chechen: тӏулг ( tʼulg ) , тарх ( tarx )
Chickasaw: tali'
Chinese:
Mandarin: 石頭 / 石头 (zh) ( shítou ) , 石头 (zh) ( shítou )
Chuvash: чул ( čul )
Crimean Tatar: taş
Czech: kámen (cs) m
Danish: sten (da) c
Dolgan: таас ( taas )
Dogrib: kwe
Dutch: steen (nl) m , steentje (nl) n
Esperanto: ŝtono (eo)
Estonian: kivi (et)
Finnish: kivi (fi)
French: pierre (fr) f , caillou (fr) m , roc (fr) m , roche (fr) f
Gagauz: taş
Galibi Carib: topu
Galician: pedra (gl) f , croio (gl) m , coio (gl) m , pelouro (gl) m , callao m , seixo f
Georgian: ქვა ( kva )
German: Stein (de) m
Greek: πέτρα (el) f ( pétra )
Ancient: λίθος m ( líthos ) , πέτρος m ( pétros ) , λᾶας m ( lâas ) ( Epic )
Greenlandic: ujarak
Hawaiian: pōhaku
Hebrew: אֶבֶן (he) f ( éven )
Hindi: पत्थर (hi) m ( patthar ) , हजर (hi) m ( hajar ) , संग (hi) m ( saṅg )
Hungarian: kavics (hu)
Icelandic: steinn (is) m
Indonesian: batu (id)
Ingush: кхера ( qera )
Irish: cloch (ga) f
Istriot: sasso m
Italian: pietra (it) f , sasso (it) m , sassolino m
Japanese: 小石 (ja) ( koishi )
Kabardian: мывэ ( məvɛ )
Kaingang: pó
Kalmyk: чолун ( çolun )
Karachay-Balkar: таш ( taş )
Karakalpak: tas
Kazakh: тас (kk) ( tas )
Khakas: тас ( tas )
Khmer: ដុំថ្ម ( dom tmɑɑ )
Korean: 돌 (ko) ( dol )
Kumyk: таш ( taş )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kevir (ku) , ber (ku) , berd (ku) , kuç (ku)
Kyrgyz: таш (ky) ( taş )
Lao: ກ້ອນຫີນ ( kǭn hīn )
Latin: lapis (la) m , saxum (la) n
Latvian: akmens m
Laz: ქუა ( kua )
Limburgish: stein (li)
Lithuanian: akmuo (lt) m
Livonian: kiv
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: steen (nds) m
German Low German: Steen (nds) m
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Luo: kidi
Macedonian: камен m ( kamen )
Malay: batu (ms)
Maltese: ġebla f
Marathi: दगड ( dagaḍ ) , खडा m ( khaḍā )
Middle English: ston
Mingrelian: ქუა ( kua )
Mongolian: чулуу (mn) ( čuluu )
Mòcheno: knott m
Nahuatl: tetl (nah)
Navajo: tsé
Nogai: тас ( tas )
Norman: pièrre f ( Jersey )
Northern Ohlone: 'inék'
Norwegian:
Norwegian Bokmål: stein (no) m , sten (no) m
Norwegian Nynorsk: stein (nn) m
Ojibwe: asin
Old Church Slavonic: камꙑ m ( kamy ) , камєнє m pl ( kamene )
Old English: stān m
Old Norse: steinn m
Ossetian: дур ( dur ) , къӕдзӕх ( k’æʒæx ) , къӕхӕн ( k’æxæn ) , айнӕг ( ajnæg )
Ottoman Turkish: طاش ( daş, taş ) , حجر ( hacer )
Persian: سنگ (fa) ( sang ) , سنگریزه (fa) , شن (fa)
Pijao: tápe
Pipil: tet
Pitjantjatjara: puḻi , apu
Plautdietsch: Steen (nds) m
Polish: kamyk (pl) m
Portuguese: pedra (pt) f , rocha (pt) f , calhau (pt) , seixo (pt) m
Rhine Franconian: Schdää
Romanian: piatră (ro) f
Russian: ка́мень (ru) m ( kámenʹ ) , ка́мешек (ru) m ( kámešek )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: стије́на f , ка̏ме̄н m
Roman: stijéna (sh) f , kȁmēn (sh) m
Shor: таш ( taş )
Slovak: kameň m
Slovene: kamen (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kamjeń m
South Slavey: tthe , tse ( Fort Liard )
Southern Altai: (please verify ) таш ( taš )
Spanish: piedra (es) f
Svan: ბა̈ჩ ( bäč )
Swabian: stoe , Schdõẽ
Swahili: jiwe (sw)
Swedish: sten (sv) c
Tajik: санг (tg) ( sang )
Tatar: taş
Telugu: రాయి (te) ( rāyi )
Thai: ก้อนหิน ( gɔ̂ɔn-hǐn )
Tibetan: རྡོ ( rdo ) , རྡོ་རིལ ( rdo ril )
Tupinambá: itá
Turkish: taş (tr)
Turkmen: daş
Tuvan: даш ( daş )
Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎁𐎐 ( ảbn )
Ukrainian: ка́мінь (uk) m ( káminʹ ) , каміне́ць (uk) m ( kaminécʹ )
Urdu: پتھر m ( patthar )
Uyghur: تاش (ug) ( tash )
Uzbek: tosh (uz)
Venetian: sas (vec)
Walloon: pire (wa) f , cayô (wa) m , rotche (wa) f
West Frisian: stien (fy)
White Hmong: poj zeb
Yakut: таас ( taas )
Yiddish: שטיין m ( shteyn )
Zealandic: steên , steêntje
Zulu: itshe class 5
gem stone
Armenian: քար (hy) ( kʻar )
Bashkir: аҫыл таш ( aśıl taş )
Bulgarian: скъпоценен камък m ( skǎpocenen kamǎk )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 寶石 / 宝石 (zh) ( bǎoshí ) , 宝石 (zh) ( bǎoshí )
Czech: drahokam (cs) m
Danish: ædelsten c
Finnish: kivi (fi) , jalokivi (fi)
French: gemme (fr) f , pierre précieuse (fr) f
Galician: xema (gl) f
German: Edelstein (de) m , Schmuckstein (de) m
Hindi: मणि (hi) f ( maṇi ) , रत्न (hi) m ( ratna ) , गोहर (hi) m ( gohar )
Icelandic: gimsteinn (is) m , eðalsteinn (is) m
Italian: gemma (it) f , pietra preziosa f
Japanese: 宝石 (ja) ( hōseki )
Khmer: ត្បូង (km) ( tbooŋ )
Korean: 보석(寶石) (ko) ( boseok )
Latvian: dārgakmens m , akmens m
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Macedonian: камен m ( kamen )
Middle English: ston
Norwegian:
Norwegian Bokmål: edelstein (no) m , edelsten (no) m
Norwegian Nynorsk: edelstein m
Old Norse: steinn m , gimsteinn m
Persian: گوهر (fa) ( gohar )
Portuguese: pedra preciosa (pt) f , gema (pt) f , pedra (pt) f
Rhine Franconian: Schdää
Russian: драгоце́нный ка́мень (ru) m ( dragocénnyj kámenʹ ) , ка́мень (ru) m ( kámenʹ ) , ка́мешек (ru) m ( kámešek )
Spanish: gema (es) f , piedra preciosa (es) f
Swabian: Schdõẽ
Swahili: jiwe (sw)
Swedish: ädelsten (sv)
Telugu: మణి (te) ( maṇi ) , రత్నం (te) ( ratnaṁ )
Volapük: nobain (vo) ( cut ) , noboin (vo)
medical: hard, stone-like deposit
piece of hard material used in board games
Translations to be checked
Verb
stone (third-person singular simple present stones , present participle stoning , simple past and past participle stoned )
( transitive ) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
She got stoned to death after they found her.
( transitive ) To wall with stones.
1974 , Mathias Peter Harpin, Prophets in the wilderness: a history of Coventry, Rhode Island :[ …] and since it was a rule of the French troops not to be a burden on the people along their route it could be that the advance guard dug and stoned the well for the troop's own special use.
( transitive ) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
( intransitive ) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
( transitive , slang ) To intoxicate , especially with narcotics . ( Usually in passive )
( intransitive , Singapore , slang ) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
2003 , Roger, Joy, Vera and Amanda Loh, Facts about Singapore: Differences between Ohio and Singapore :I was stoning the whole of today.
2011 November 2, Shermaine Ong, (Please provide the book title or journal name) :Resume writing class lesson 2, stoning .
2015 April 8, Becky Osawa, Trekking with Becky: Stoning at the Marina Barrage, Singapore :The Marina Barrage is a reservoir, but everyone goes there because the spacious greenery at the top is the perfect place for stoning , which is Singlish for hanging out and chilling.
( transitive ) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
Synonyms
Translations
To pelt with stones
Arabic: رَجَمَ ( rajama )
Armenian: քարկոծել (hy) ( kʻarkocel )
Azerbaijani: daşlamaq
Breton: labezañ (br) , meinata (br)
Bulgarian: пребивам с камъни ( prebivam s kamǎni )
Catalan: apedregar (ca) , lapidar (ca)
Czech: kamenovat impf , ukamenovat (cs) pf
Danish: stene (da)
Dutch: stenigen (nl)
Esperanto: ŝtonmortigi
Faroese: steina
Finnish: kivittää (fi)
French: lapider (fr)
Galician: lapidar , apedrar (gl) , acoiar , acantazar
German: steinigen (de)
Greek:
Ancient: λιθοβολέω ( lithoboléō )
Hindi: संगसार करना ( saṅgsār karnā )
Hungarian: megkövez (hu)
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Interlingua: lapidar
Irish: cloch (ga)
Italian: lapidare (it)
Khmer: ចោលដុំថ្ម ( caol dom tmɑɑ )
Latin: lapidō
Macedonian: каменува ( kamenuva )
Nahuatl: motla , tehuia
Norman: lapider ( Jersey )
Norwegian: steine
Occitan: lapidar
Old English: stǣnan , hǣnan , ġehǣnan
Persian: سنگسار کردن (fa) ( sangsâr kardan )
Polish: kamienować (pl) impf , ukamienować (pl) pf
Portuguese: apedrejar (pt) , lapidar
Quechua: chanqiyay , ch'aqiy
Slovak: kameňovať impf , ukameňovať pf
Spanish: lapidar (es) , apedrear (es)
Swahili: jiwe (sw)
Swedish: stena (sv)
Turkish: taşlamak (tr)
Welsh: llabyddio (cy)
to intoxicate, especially with narcotics
Adjective
stone (not comparable )
Constructed of stone.
stone walls
Synonym: ( archaic ) stonen
Having the appearance of stone.
stone pot
Of a dull light grey or beige , like that of some stones.
( African-American Vernacular ) Used as an intensifier .
She is one stone fox.
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2001 , Andrew H. Vachss, Pain Management :“And I got the best metal man in the business going for me, too.” “This job's going to be a stone motherfucker,” Flacco said
2009 , John Lutz, Night Victims , page 307 :He might be a stone killer who simply doesn't care if his victim's alive or dead at the time of disfigurement.
( LGBT ) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
stone butch; stone femme
Antonym: pillow princess
c. 2000 , Sonya, “Femme Identity: Stone-Butch/Femme Dynamic, FTM/Femme Dynamic”, in Transensual Femme [3] , archived from the original on 2000-05-20 :My physical preference tends more to very masculine-bodied non-transitioning stone TG butches.
Translations
constructed of stone
Armenian: քարաշեն (hy) ( kʻarašen )
Breton: maen (br)
Bulgarian: каменен (bg) m ( kamenen )
Catalan: petri , pedrenc
Czech: kamenný (cs)
Danish: sten - , af sten
Dutch: stenen (nl)
Finnish: kivinen (fi) , kivi- (fi)
French: (please verify ) de pierre , (please verify ) en pierre
German: steinern (de)
Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 ( staineins )
Greek:
Ancient: λιθινός ( lithinós )
Hindi: संगी (hi) ( saṅgī ) , संगीन (hi) ( saṅgīn )
Interlingua: (please verify ) de petra , (please verify ) petrose
Italian: pietroso (it) m , petroso (it) m , roccioso (it) m
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Japanese: 石製 ( sekisei )
Latin: lapideus
Latvian: akmens m
Macedonian: камен m ( kamen )
Old English: stǣnen
Persian: سنگی (fa)
Polish: kamienny (pl) m
Portuguese: de pedra , pétreo (pt)
Russian: ка́менный (ru) ( kámennyj )
Spanish: de piedra (es) , pétreo (es)
Swahili: jiwe (sw)
Swedish: sten- (sv) , av sten (sv)
Telugu: రాతి (te) ( rāti )
having the appearance of stone
Adverb
stone (not comparable )
As a stone ( used with following adjective ) .
My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
( slang ) Absolutely , completely ( used with following adjectives ) .
I went stone crazy after she left.
I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
Translations
Derived terms
See also
Anagrams
'onest , ETNOs , Eston , SONET , notes , onest , onset , set on , seton , steno , steno- , tones
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
stone (plural stones )
stoned (high on drugs)
Middle English
Noun
stone
Alternative form of ston