bauxite

See also: Bauxite

English

Etymology

French from Les Baux in France, +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːksaɪt/

Noun

bauxite (countable and uncountable, plural bauxites)

1. The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides.

Translations

ore

• Armenian: բոքսիտ (hy) (bokʻsit)
• Bulgarian: боксит (boksit)
• Catalan: bauxita f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋁土礦／铝土矿 (zh) (lǚtǔkuàng), 铝土矿 (zh) (lǚtǔkuàng)

• Czech: bauxit m
• Danish: bauxit (da) c
• Dutch: bauxiet (nl) n
• Esperanto: baŭksito
• Estonian: boksiit
• Finnish: bauksiitti (fi)
• French: bauxite (fr) f
• German: Bauxit (de) m
• Greek: βωξίτης (el) m (voxítis)
• Hungarian: bauxit (hu)
• Italian: bauxite (it) f
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• Japanese: 鉄礬土 (ja) (てつばんど, tetsubando), ボーキサイト (ja) (bōkisaito)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: boksitas
• Malay: bauksit
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bauksitt m, bauxitt m

  Nynorsk: bauksitt m, bauxitt m

• Polish: boksyt m
• Portuguese: bauxita (pt) f
• Russian: бокси́т (ru) m (boksít)
• Serbo-Croatian: boksit (sh) m
• Spanish: bauxita f
• Swedish: bauxit (sv) c
• Tagalog: bawhita
• Thai: บ็อกไซต์ (bòksai)

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French

Etymology

from Les Baux in France.

Noun

bauxite f (uncountable)

1. bauxite

Further reading

• “bauxite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

bauxite f (plural bauxiti)

1. (mineralogy) bauxite

Derived terms

• bauxitico