feldspar

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Alternative forms

felspar

Etymology

Partial calque of German Feldspat, formed from Feld (“field”) + Spat (“spar”), the second element replaced with the English cognate spar.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛldˌspɑɹ/, (less commonly) /ˈfɛlˌspɑɹ/
(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛldspɑː/, (less commonly) /ˈfɛlspɑː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

feldspar (countable and uncountable, plural feldspars)

(mineralogy) Any of a large group of rock-forming aluminosilicate minerals containing potassium, sodium, or calcium that, together, make up about 60% of the Earth's outer crust.

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Translations

any of a large group of rock-forming minerals

Afrikaans: veldspaat
Arabic: فلسبار m (falasabar)
Aragonese: feldespato m
Asturian: feldespatu m
Basque: feldespato
Belarusian: палявы шпат m (paljavy špat)
Breton: feldspat m
Bulgarian: фелдшпат (bg) m (feldšpat)
Burmese: ကြွေကျောက် (krwe-kyauk)
Catalan: feldspat (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 長石 / 长石 (zoeng² sek⁶)

Mandarin: 長石 / 长石 (zh) (chángshí)
Czech: živec (cs) m
Danish: feldspat c
Dutch: veldspaat (nl) n
Esperanto: feldspato (eo)
Finnish: maasälpä (fi)
French: feldspath (fr) m
Galician: feldespato m
Georgian: მინდვრის შპატები (mindvris šṗaṭebi)
German: Feldspat (de) m
Greek: άστριος (el) m (ástrios)
Hebrew: פצלת הסדה f (patsélet hasadé)
Hindi: फेल्सपार (phelsapār)
Hungarian: földpát (hu)
Icelandic: feldspat n
Indonesian: felspar (id)
Irish: iathchloch f
Italian: feldspato (it) m
Japanese: 長石 (ja) (ちょうせき, chōseki)
Korean: 장석 (ko) (jangseok)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: feldspat (ku)
Latvian: laukšpats m
Limburgish: veldsjpaat
Lithuanian: feldšpatas m, lauko špatas m
Macedonian: момирок m (momirok)
Manx: clagh vane f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: feltspat m

Nynorsk: feltspat m
Occitan: feldspat m
Persian: فلدسپات (fa)
Polish: skaleń (pl) m
Portuguese: feldspato (pt) m
Romanian: feldspat (ro) m
Russian: полево́й шпат (ru) m (polevój špat)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фе̏лдшпат m

Latin: fȅldšpat (sh) m
Slovak: živec (sk) m
Slovene: glinenec m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pólny špat m

Upper Sorbian: pólny špat m
Spanish: feldespato (es) m
Swedish: fältspat (sv) c
Tagalog: peldespato
Tamil: பெல்ட்ஸ்பார் (pelṭspār)
Thai: เฟลด์สปาร์ (flâyt-bpaa)
Turkish: feldspat (tr)
Ukrainian: польовий шпат m (polʹovyj špat)
Uzbek: dala shpatlari
Vietnamese: fenspat (vi)
Welsh: ffelsbar m