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”)

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, llamborda (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鵝卵石, 鹅卵石 (zh) (éluǎnshí)

• Danish: brosten (da)
• Dutch: keisteen; (for paving) kassei, kasseisteen
• Finnish: mukulakivi (fi)
• French: pavé (fr)
• Georgian: რიყის ქვა (riqis k’va)
• 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: brostein m
• Polish: brukowiec
• Portuguese: pedregulho m, pedras arredondadas f pl; (for paving) paralelepípedo m, calçamento m
• Russian: булыжник (ru) m (bulýžnik)
• Spanish: adoquín

External links

• Cobblestone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

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