glacier

English

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Perito Moreno Glacier, Patagonia, Argentina

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology

Borrowing from French glacier, from Old French glace (“ice”), from Latin glacies (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

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
• Armenian: սառցադաշտ (saṙcʿadašt)
• Basque: glaziar
• Bavarian: gletscha
• 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, glaciaro, glaciejo
• Estonian: liustik
• Faroese: jøkul m
• Finnish: jäätikkö (fi)
• French: glacier (fr) m
• Georgian: მყინვარი (mqinvari)
• German: Gletscher (de) m, Ferner (de) m, Kees n
• Greek: παγετώνας (el) m (pagetónas)
• 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)
• Korean: 빙하 (ko) (bingha)
• Ladin: giacé
• Latin: glaciarium

• Limburgish: gletsjer (li)
• Lithuanian: ledynas
• Malay: glasier
• Malayalam: பனியாறு (பனியாறு)
• Maori: hukāpo
• Norwegian: isbre m, jøkel 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: ледник (ru) m (ledník)
• Saterland Frisian: Glitsker
• Scottish Gaelic: eigh-shruth m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ледењак m, ледник m, глечер m

  Roman: ledènjāk m, lednik m, glȅčer m

• Sicilian: ghiacciaiu
• Sindhi: برفال (sd) m
• Slovak: ľadovec
• Slovene: ledenik (sl) m
• Spanish: glaciar (es) m, helero m
• Swedish: glaciär (sv) c, jökel (sv)
• Turkish: buzul (tr)
• Ukrainian: льодовик (l'odovyk)
• Volapük: gladäd (vo)
• Welsh: rhewlif
• Yakut: булуус (buluus)

See also

• iceberg

Anagrams

• gracile

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French

Etymology

From Old French glace (“ice”), from Latin glacies (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

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).