corrugated iron

English

Noun

corrugated iron (uncountable)

1. An iron sheet building material, usually galvanised, which has been pressed into corrugations.
   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎^[1]:

     A special reserved enclosure with sandbags and a corrugated iron roof was set aside for three members of the Royal Family.

Translations

building material

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波紋鐵／波纹铁 (zh) (bōwéntiě) 鐵皮／铁皮 (zh) (tiěpí)

• Danish: bølgeblik n (any metal)
• Finnish: aaltopelti (fi)
• French: tôle ondulée (fr) f
• German: Wellblech (de) n
• Hungarian: hullámpala (hu), hullámlemez (hu)
• Icelandic: bárujárn (is) n
• Irish: iarann rocach m, iarann roctha m
• Japanese: トタン (ja) (totan), 海鼠板 (なまこいた, namakoita)
• Maori: rino kōwakawaka
• Norman: fielle dé zîn f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: bølgeblikk

  Nynorsk: bølgjeblekk

• Portuguese: ferro corrugado m
• Russian: гофри́рованное желе́зо n (gofrírovannoje želézo), рифлёное желе́зо n (rifljónoje želézo)
• Scottish Gaelic: iarann preasach m
• Thai: สังกะสี (th) (sǎng-gà-sǐi), เมทัลชีต
• Turkish: oluklu sac (tr)
• Urak Lawoi': ตีมะฮ (timah)

Further reading

• Corrugated galvanised iron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia