feldspar

English

Feldspar

Alternative forms

• felspar

Etymology

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

Noun

feldspar (countable and uncountable, plural feldspars)

1. (mineralogy) Any of a large group of rock-forming minerals that, together, make up about 60% of the earth's outer crust. The feldspars are all aluminum silicates of the alkali metals sodium, potassium, calcium and barium. Feldspars are the principal constituents of igneous and plutonic rocks.

Derived terms

• feldsparlike
• glassy feldspar
• potash-feldspar
• potassium feldspar

 

Related terms

• feldspathic
• feldspathoid
• feldspathose

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)
• 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
• 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

  Roman: 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

See also

• albite
• bytownite
• andesine
• anorthite
• granite
• labradorite
• microcline
• mineral
• oligoclase
• orthoclase
• rock