cobblestone

English

Etymology

From Middle English kobilstane, from cobble (probably a diminutive of one of various words cob, presumed to stem from a Proto-Germanic root kubb- "something rounded") + Old English stan (“stone”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑbl̩ˌstoʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒbl̩ˌstəʊn/

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• Hyphenation: cob‧ble‧stone

Noun

cobblestone (plural cobblestones)

1. A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.

Synonyms

• cobble (as backformation)

Translations

a rounded stone

• Bulgarian: объл камък (obǎl kamǎk)
• Catalan: còdol (ca), llamborda (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鵝卵石 (zh), 鹅卵石 (zh) (éluǎnshí)

• Danish: brosten (da)
• Dutch: keisteen; (for paving) kassei, kasseisteen
• Finnish: mukulakivi (fi)
• French: pavé (fr)
• Georgian: რიყის ქვა (riq̇is kva)
• German: Katzenkopf m, Katzenkopfpflasterstein m, Pflasterstein (de) m
• Greek: κροκάλα (el) f (krokála), σκύρο (el) f (skýro)
• Hungarian: macskakő (hu)

• Italian: pavé (it), ciottolo (it)
• Japanese: 丸石 (まるいし, maruishi), 玉石 (たまいし, tamaishi)
• Latvian: bruģakmens m
• Macedonian: калдрма f (kaldrma)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brostein m

• Occitan: calada (oc), pasiment, pavat
• Polish: brukowiec m, otoczak (pl) m
• Portuguese: pedregulho m, pedras arredondadas f pl; (for paving) paralelepípedo m, calçamento (pt) m
• Quechua: khallki
• Russian: булы́жник (ru) m (bulýžnik)
• Spanish: adoquín (es)

Further reading

• cobblestone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967