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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæsɒlt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbæsɒlt/, /ˈbæsəlt/, /ˈbæsɔːlt/
• IPA^(key): /bəˈsɑlt/, /ˈbeɪsɔːlt/

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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• 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
• basaltoid
• basaltware
• metabasalt
• nonbasalt
• picrobasalt
• trachybasalt

 

Translations

hard rock

• Albanian: bazalti, bazalt m
• Arabic: بَازٰلْت 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:

  Mandarin: 玄武岩 (zh) (xuánwǔyán)

  Min Nan: 玄武岩 (hiân-bú-giâm)

• Czech: čedič (cs) m
• Danish: basalt (da)
• Dutch: basalt (nl)
• 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
• Greenlandic: agiamineq, agiaq, basalti
• Hebrew: בַּזֶּלֶת (he) m (bazélet)
• Hindi: बेसाल्ट (besālṭ)
• Hungarian: bazalt (hu)
• Icelandic: basalt (is)
• Ido: bazalto (io)
• Indonesian: basalt
• Interlingue:
• 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 (ko) (hyeonmuam)
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• Kyrgyz: базальт (bazalt)
• Latvian: bazalts m
• Lithuanian: bazaltas
• 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)
• 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)
• Tagalog: basalto, batumbakal
• Tajik: базалт (bazalt)
• Thai: หินบะซอลต์
• 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

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Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes.

Noun

basalt m (plural basalts)

1. basalt

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.

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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:

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• Hyphenation: ba‧salt
• Rhymes: -ɑlt

Noun

basalt n (uncountable)

1. basalt (type of igneous rock)

Derived terms

• basaltblok
• basalten

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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) A hard rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, it makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.

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

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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

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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

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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