black ice

See also: black-ice

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

black ice (uncountable)

1. A smooth, barely visible, and dangerously slippery film of ice, usually over a dark surface, such as rock or pavement.

   Coordinate term: black frost

   • 1965 December 25, “Oregon Bus Crash Kills 12, Hurts 27”, in New York Times‎^[1], page 30:

     He said the bus struck a patch of black ice, or freshly formed ice as yet invisible on the road surface, just after he had passed a trailer truck.

Translations

invisible film of ice

• Arabic: جَلِيد أَسْوَد m (jalīd ʔaswad)
• Armenian: մերկասառույց (hy) (merkasaṙuycʻ)
• Asturian: xelu negro m
• Bashkir: боҙлауыҡ (boźlawıq)
• Basque: euri izoztu
• Belarusian: галалёдзіца f (halaljódzica)
• Bulgarian: поледица f (poledica)
• Carpathian Rusyn: полéдіця f (polédicja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑冰 (hēibīng)

• Czech: náledí (cs) n
• Danish: islag (da) n
• Dutch: ijzel (nl) m
• Esperanto: glatglacio
• Faroese: svartakálk n, svarthálka f, svartagler n, vátagler n
• Finnish: musta jää (fi)
• French: verglas (fr) m, glace noire (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: izel m

• Georgian: ლიპყინული (liṗq̇inuli)
• German: Glatteis (de) n, Blitzeis (de) n, überfrierende Nässe f (literally “freezing wetness”), Eisglätte f
• Greek: μαύρος πάγος (el) m (mávros págos)
• Hungarian: jegesedés (hu)
• Ingrian: gololeditsa
• Irish: oighear dubh m
• Italian: vetrone m, ghiaccio nero m
• Japanese: アイスバーン (aisubān), ブラックアイスバーン (burakku aisubān), 黒氷 (くろこおり, kurokōri), 透明氷 (とうめいこおり, tōmeikōri), 雨氷 (ja) (うひょう, uhyō; あめごおり, amegōri) (freezing rain)
• Kazakh: көктайғақ (köktaiğaq)
• Korean: 빙판 (bingpan), 빙판길 (bingpan'gil), 도로 살얼음 (doro sareoreum), 블랙아이스 (beullaegaiseu)
• Latvian: apledojums m
• Lithuanian: plikledis m
• Macedonian: поледица f (poledica)
• Norman: verglias m
• Occitan: glaç negre m
• Polish: gołoledź (pl) f, czarny lód m, ślizgawica (pl) f, ślizgawka (pl) f (colloquial), szklanka (pl) f (colloquial)
• Portuguese: gelo negro m
• Romanian: polei (ro) n, ghețuș (ro) n
• Russian: гололе́дица (ru) f (gololédica), гололёд (ru) m (gololjód) (glaze ice, freezing rain)
• Samogitian: plikšals m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀ледица f

  Latin: pòledica (sh) f

• Sicilian: jelu (scn) m, jilata f
• Slovak: poľadovica f
• Spanish: placa de hielo f, verglás m
• Swedish: blixthalka (sv) c, svarthalka (sv) c
• Tamil: கரும் பனி (karum paṉi)
• Ukrainian: ожеле́диця (uk) f (oželédycja), о́желедь (uk) f (óželedʹ), ожеле́да f (oželéda)
• Vietnamese: băng đen
• Volapük: frodaglad
• Walloon: waerglaece (wa) f, noere glaece (wa) f, waergla (wa) m
• Welsh: plymen (cy) f, glasrew m, durew m
• Yakut: килэҥ (kileŋ)

See also

• freezing rain