glacier

English

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Perito Moreno Glacier, Patagonia, Argentina

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlæs.jə/, /ˈɡleɪs.jə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/

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Etymology

Borrowing from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal glacier, from Vulgar Latin glaciarium, derived from Late Latin glacia, from Latin glacies ‎(“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‎(“to be cold, to freeze”).

Noun

glacier ‎(plural glaciers)

1. (geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.

Derived terms

• glacial
• glaciation

Translations

a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill

• Afrikaans: gletser
• Albanian: akullnaja
• Arabic: مَثْلَجَة f ‎(maṯlaja)
• Armenian: սառցադաշտ (hy) ‎(saṙcʿadašt)
• Azeri: buzlaq (az)
• Basque: glaziar
• Bavarian: gletscha
• Belarusian: ледаві́к m ‎(ljedavík)
• Bengali: হিমবাহ ‎(himbah)
• Bulgarian: ледни́к m ‎(ledník), гле́тчер m ‎(glétčer)
• Burmese: ရေခဲမြစ် (my) ‎(rehkai:mrac)
• Catalan: glacera
• Central Melanau: pejujoh
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰川 (zh) ‎(bīngchuān), 冰河 (zh) ‎(bīnghé)

• Czech: ledovec (cs) m
• Danish: gletsjer (da) c, jøkel c, bræ c
• Dutch: gletsjer (nl) m
• Esperanto: glaĉero (eo), glaciaro, glaciejo
• Estonian: liustik
• Faroese: jøkul m
• Finnish: jäätikkö (fi)
• French: glacier (fr) m
• Georgian: მყინვარი ‎(mq̇invari)
• German: Gletscher (de) m, Ferner (de) m, Kees n
• Greek: παγετώνας (el) m ‎(pagetónas)
• Hebrew: קַרְחוֹן (he) ‎(karkhon)
• Hindi: हिमानी (hi) ‎(himānī)
• Hungarian: gleccser (hu)
• Icelandic: jökull (is) m, ísbreiða f
• Ido: glaciero (io)
• Indonesian: gletser (id)
• Irish: oighearshruth m
• Italian: ghiacciaio (it) m
• Japanese: 氷河 ‎(ひょうが, hyōga)
• Kazakh: мұздық ‎(muzdıq)
• Korean: 빙하 (ko) ‎(bingha)
• Ladin: giacé
• Latin: glaciarium
• Latvian: ledājs (lv) m

• Limburgish: gletsjer (li)
• Lithuanian: ledynas m
• Macedonian: гле́чер m ‎(gléčer)
• Malay: glasier
• Malayalam: ഹിമപ്പരപ്പ് ‎(himapparapp)
• Maori: hukāpo
• Mongolian: мөсөн гол ‎(mösön gol)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bre m, isbre m, jøkel m

  Nynorsk: bre m, isbre m, jøkul m

• Ossetian: цъити ‎(c’iti)
• Persian: یخسار ‎(yaxsâr)
• Polish: lodowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: glaciar (pt) m (Portugal), geleira (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: ghețar (ro) m
• Romansch: glatscher, sglatscher, vadretg, vadret
• Russian: ледни́к (ru) m ‎(ledník)
• Saterland Frisian: Glitsker
• Scottish Gaelic: eigh-shruth m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ледењак m, ледник m, глечер m

  Roman: ledènjāk (sh) m, lednik m, glȅčer (sh) m

• Shor: мустағ ‎(mustağ)
• Sicilian: ghiacciaiu
• Sindhi: برفال (sd) m
• Slovak: ľadovec m
• Slovene: ledenik (sl) m
• Spanish: glaciar (es) m, helero m
• Swedish: glaciär (sv) c, jökel (sv)
• Tagalog: glasyar
• Tamil: பனியாறு (ta) ‎(paṉiyāṟu)
• Turkish: buzul (tr)
• Turkmen: buzluk (tk)
• Ukrainian: льодови́к m ‎(lʹodovýk)
• Uzbek: muzlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: băng hà (vi), sông băng (vi)
• Volapük: gladäd (vo)
• Welsh: rhewlif
• Yakut: булуус ‎(buluus)
• Yiddish: גלעטשער ‎(gletsher)

See also

• iceberg

Anagrams

• gracile

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French

Etymology

From Franco-Provençal glacier, from Vulgar Latin glaciarium, derived from Late Latin glacia, from Latin glacies ‎(“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‎(“to be cold, to freeze”). Compare Italian ghiacciaio.

Noun

glacier m ‎(plural glaciers)

1. glacier
2. ice-cream shop

See also

• glace

Anagrams

• giclera

External links

• “glacier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Verb

glacier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of glaciō