coulomb

See also: Coulomb

English

Etymology

From French coulomb, from the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.lɒm/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈku.lɑm/, /ˈku.loʊm/

Noun

coulomb (plural coulombs)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C

   He is charged up with enough coulombs to make his hair stand on end.

Derived terms

• abcoulomb
• Coulomb attraction
• Coulomb barrier
• Coulomb blockade
• Coulomb collision
• Coulomb explosion
• Coulomb force
• Coulomb gauge
• coulombic
• coulombmeter
• Coulomb repulsion
• Coulomb's constant
• Coulomb's law
• coulometer
• coulometric
• coulometry
• femtocoulomb
• megacoulomb
• microcoulomb
• nanocoulomb
• picocoulomb

Translations

unit of electrical charge

• Arabic: كُولُون m (kulūn)
• Asturian: culombiu m, coulomb m
• Burmese: ကူးလောင်း (ku:laung:)
• Catalan: coulomb (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庫侖 / 库仑 (zh) (kùlún)

• Czech: coulomb m
• Dutch: coulomb (nl) m
• Finnish: coulombi (fi)
• French: coulomb (fr) m
• Galician: culombio (gl) m, coulomb (gl) m
• Georgian: კულონი (ka) (ḳuloni)
• German: Coulomb (de) n
• Greek: κουλόμπ n (koulómp)
• Hindi: कूलाम्ब ? (kūlāmb)
• Hungarian: coulomb (hu)
• Icelandic: kúlomb n
• Indonesian: coulomb
• Italian: coulomb (it) m
• Japanese: クーロン (ja) (kūron)
• Khmer: គូឡុំ (kuulom)
• Korean: 쿨롱 (kullong)
• Lithuanian: kulonas ?
• Malay: kulum (ms), coulomb
• Polish: kulomb (pl) m, amperosekunda f
• Portuguese: coulomb (pt) m
• Romanian: coulomb (ro) m
• Russian: куло́н (ru) m (kulón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ку̀ло̄н m

  Latin: kùlōn (sh) m

• Slovene: kulón m, coulomb ?
• Spanish: culombio (es) m, coulomb (es) m
• Swedish: coulomb (sv) c, amperesekund c
• Thai: คูลอมบ์ (kuu-lɔɔm)
• Turkish: coulomb
• Vietnamese: coulomb (vi), culông

Anagrams

• columbo

Asturian

Etymology

From French coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb (unit of electrical charge)

   Synonym: culombiu

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kulom/ [ku.lõm], /kulomb/ [ku.lõmb]
• Rhymes: -ulom, -om, -ulomb, -omb

Noun

coulomb inan

1. coulomb (unit of electrical charge)

Declension

Declension of coulomb (inan C-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	coulomb	coulomba	coulombak	coulombok
ergative	coulombek	coulombak	coulombek	coulombok
dative	coulombi	coulombari	coulombei	coulomboi
genitive	coulomben	coulombaren	coulomben	coulombon
comitative	coulombekin	coulombarekin	coulombekin	coulombokin
causative	coulombengatik	coulombarengatik	coulombengatik	coulombongatik
benefactive	coulombentzat	coulombarentzat	coulombentzat	coulombontzat
instrumental	coulombez	coulombaz	coulombez	coulombotaz
inessive	coulombetan	coulombean	coulombetan	coulombotan
locative	coulombetako	coulombeko	coulombetako	coulombotako
allative	coulombetara	coulombera	coulombetara	coulombotara
terminative	coulombetaraino	coulomberaino	coulombetaraino	coulombotaraino
directive	coulombetarantz	coulomberantz	coulombetarantz	coulombotarantz
destinative	coulombetarako	coulomberako	coulombetarako	coulombotarako
ablative	coulombetatik	coulombetik	coulombetatik	coulombotatik
partitive	coulombik	—	—	—
prolative	coulombtzat	—	—	—

Further reading

• “coulomb”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkulomp]
• Hyphenation: cou‧lomb

Noun

coulomb m inan

1. coulomb (unit of electric charge)

Declension

Declension of coulomb (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	coulomb	coulomby
genitive	coulombu	coulombů
dative	coulombu	coulombům
accusative	coulomb	coulomby
vocative	coulombe	coulomby
locative	coulombu	coulombech
instrumental	coulombem	coulomby

Dutch

Etymology

From French coulomb, from Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈlɔm(p)/, [kuˈlɔ̃m(p)], [kuˈlɔm(p)]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cou‧lomb
• Rhymes: -ɔm, -ɔmp

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs, no diminutive)

1. coulomb (unit of electric charge)

Related terms

• Coulombinteractie

French

Etymology

From the French physicist Charles-Augustin Coulomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.lɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French coulomb.

Noun

coulomb (plural coulomb-coulomb)

1. (physics) coulomb: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C

Further reading

• “coulomb”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (invariable)

1. coulomb

Anagrams

• Columbo

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb, from the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

coulomb m (definite singular coulomben, indefinite plural coulomb, definite plural coulombene)

1. coulomb

References

• “coulomb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “coulomb” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb, from the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulomben)

1. coulomb

References

• “coulomb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French coulomb.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈlõ/, /kuˈlõ.bi/, /ˈku.lõ.bi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈlõ/, /kuˈlõ.bi/, /ˈku.lõ.bi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈlõ/, /kuˈlõ.be/, /ˈku.lõ.be/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈlõ/, /kuˈlõ.bɨ/

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb (unit of electrical charge)

Further reading

• “coulomb”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “coulomb”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombi)

1. coulomb

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	coulomb	coulombul	coulombi	coulombii
genitive-dative	coulomb	coulombului	coulombi	coulombilor
vocative	coulombule		coulombilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulomb)

1. coulomb

   Synonym: culombio

Further reading

• “coulomb”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025