gunpowder

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Noun

gunpowder (countable and uncountable, plural gunpowders)

1. An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulphur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.

Usage notes

• Gunpowders refers to multiple formulations for the uncountable gunpowder.

Translations

explosive mixture

• Afrikaans: buskruit
• Albanian: barut (sq) m
• Arabic: بارود m (bārūd)
• Aragonese: polvora f
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: please add this translation if you can

• Armenian: վառոդ (vaṙod)
• Azeri: barıt (az)
• Belarusian: порах m (pórax)
• Bulgarian: барут m (bárut)
• Catalan: pólvora
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火藥 (zh), 火药 (zh) (huǒyào)

• Czech: střelný prach m
• Danish: krudt
• Dutch: buskruit (nl) n
• Esperanto: nigra pulvo, pulvo
• Estonian: püssirohi
• Finnish: ruuti (fi)
• French: poudre à canon (fr) m
• Galician: pólvora
• Georgian: დენთი (dent’i)
• German: Schießpulver (de) n, Schwarzpulver (de) n
• Greek: μπαρούτι (el) (baroúti)
• Hebrew: אבק שריפה
• Hindi: बारूद f (bārūd)
• Hungarian: lőpor (hu), puskapor (hu)
• Icelandic: byssupúður n
• Indonesian: bubuk mesiu
• Italian: polvere da sparo f, polvere pirica f

• Japanese: 火薬 (かやく, kayaku)
• Jèrriais: poudre à canon f
• Kapampangan: ubat
• Korean: 화약 (ko) (hwayak) (火藥 (ko))
• Latvian: šaujampulveris
• Lithuanian: parakas m
• Macedonian: барут m (bárut)
• Manx: poodyr çhentagh m, poodyr m
• Maori: paura
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krutt (no) n

  Nynorsk: krut n

• Persian: باروت (fa) (bârut), بارود (bârud)
• Polish: proch (pl) m
• Portuguese: pólvora (pt) f
• Russian: порох (ru) m (pórox)
• Scottish Gaelic: fùdar-gunna m, fùdar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: барут m

  Roman: barut (sh) m

• Slovene: smodnik (sl) m
• Spanish: pólvora (es) f
• Swedish: krut (sv) n
• Telugu: పేలుడు మందు (pēluḍu maṃdu)
• Turkish: barut (tr)
• Ukrainian: порох m (pórox)
• Urdu: بارود f (bārūd)
• Vietnamese: thuốc súng
• Vilamovian: śispuwer
• Welsh: powdwr gwn

See also

• powder burn