basalt

See also: Basalt

English

A basalt rock.

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”),

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbæs.ɒlt/, /ˈbæs.əlt/, /ˈbæs.ɔːlt/

  • Audio (UK); /ˈbæs.ɒlt/:

    (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bəˈsɔlt/, /ˈbæs.ɔlt/, /ˈbeɪˌsɔlt/

  • Audio (US); /bəˈsɔlt/:

    (file)

  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /bəˈsɑlt/, /ˈbæs.ɑlt/, /ˈbeɪˌsɑlt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbæs.ɑlt/
• Rhymes: -æsɒlt, -æsəlt, -æsɔːlt
• Hyphenation: bas‧alt

Noun

basalt (countable and uncountable, plural basalts)

1. (mineralogy) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.
2. A type of unglazed pottery.

Hypernyms

• molten rock

Hyponyms

• flood basalt

Derived terms

• alkali basalt
• basaltic
• basaltiform
• basaltine
• basaltoid
• basaltware
• metabasalt
• metabasaltic
• nonbasalt
• picrobasalt
• plateau basalt
• trachybasalt

 

Translations

hard rock

• Albanian: bazalt m
• Arabic: بَازَلْت m (bāzalt)
• Aragonese: basalto m
• Armenian: բազալտ (hy) (bazalt)
• Asturian: basaltu m
• Azerbaijani: bazalt
• Basque: basalto
• Belarusian: база́льт m (bazálʹt)
• Bulgarian: база́лт (bg) m (bazált)
• Catalan: basalt m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 玄武岩 (hiân-bú-giâm)

  Mandarin: 玄武岩 (zh) (xuánwǔyán)

• Czech: čedič (cs) m
• Danish: basalt (da) c
• Dutch: basalt (nl) n
• Esperanto: bazalto
• Estonian: basalt (et)
• Faroese: basalt n, blágrýti n
• Finnish: basaltti (fi)
• French: basalte (fr)
• Galician: basalto
• Georgian: ბაზალტი (bazalṭi)
• German: Basalt (de) m
• Greek: βασάλτης (el) m (vasáltis)
• Greenlandic: agiamineq, agiaq, basalti
• Hebrew: בַּזֶּלֶת (he) m (bazélet)
• Hindi: बेसाल्ट (besālṭ)
• Hungarian: bazalt (hu)
• Icelandic: basalt (is), blágrýti (is) n
• Ido: bazalto (io)
• Indonesian: basalt
• Irish: basalt m
• Italian: basalto (it)
• Japanese: 玄武岩 (ja) (げんぶがん, genbugan)
• Kazakh: базальт (bazalt)
• Khmer: ភូរាល (phuuriəl), បាសាល (baasaal), ថ្មបាសាល (thmɑɑbaasaal)
• Korean: 현무암(玄武巖) (ko) (hyeonmuam)
• Kyrgyz: базальт (bazalt)
• Latvian: bazalts m
• Lithuanian: bazaltas (lt) m
• Low German: basalt
• Macedonian: базалт m (bazalt)
• Malay: basalt
• Maori: karā, pakawera
• Marathi: बसाल्ट खडक (basālṭa khaḍak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: basalt m

  Nynorsk: basalt m

• Persian: بازالت (fa) (bâzâlt)
• Polish: bazalt (pl) m
• Portuguese: basalto (pt) m
• Quechua: basaltu
• Romanian: bazalt (ro) n
• Russian: база́льт (ru) m (bazálʹt)
• Samogitian: bazalts
• Scottish Gaelic: basalt
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ба̀залт m

  Roman: bàzalt (sh) m

• Slovak: bazalt m, čadič (sk) m
• Slovene: bazalt (sl) m
• Spanish: basalto (es) m
• Sundanese: basalt
• Swedish: basalt (sv) c
• Tagalog: basalto, batumbakal
• Tajik: базалт (bazalt)
• Thai: หินบะซอลต์, บะซอลต์ (bà-sɔ́l)
• Turkish: bazalt (tr)
• Ukrainian: база́льт (uk) m (bazálʹt)
• Uzbek: bazalt (uz)
• Vietnamese: ba-zan, ba-dan
• Welsh: basalt
• Yiddish: באַזאַלט m (bazalt)

Anagrams

• Labats, Tablas, tablas, talabs

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈzal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bəˈzalt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈzalt]

Noun

basalt m (plural basalts)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basàltic

 

Further reading

• “basalt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “basalt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “basalt” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “basalt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French basalte, from Middle French basalte, from Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːˈzɑlt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ba‧salt
• Rhymes: -ɑlt

Noun

basalt n (uncountable)

1. basalt (type of igneous rock)

Derived terms

• basaltblok
• basaltdijk
• basalten
• basalttalud

 

Descendants

• → Indonesian: basal

Faroese

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paˈsal̥t]

Noun

basalt n (genitive singular basalts, uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) basalt

Declension

Declension of basalt (singular only)
n3s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	basalt	basaltið
accusative	basalt	basaltið
dative	basalti	basaltinum
genitive	basalts	basaltsins

Synonyms

• blágrýti n

Irish

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (genitive singular basailt)

1. (mineralogy) basalt

Declension

Declension of basalt

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative basalt Vocative a bhasailt Genitive basailt Dative basalt

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an basalt Genitive an bhasailt Dative leis an mbasalt don bhasalt

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
basalt	bhasalt	mbasalt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “basalt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “basalt”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (definite singular basalten, indefinite plural basalter, definite plural basaltene)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basaltisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (definite singular basalten, indefinite plural basaltar, definite plural basaltane)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basaltisk