gunpowder

See also: gun powder

English

Etymology

gun +‎ powder

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌnˌpaʊdə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌnˌpaʊdəɹ/

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.
2. Short for gunpowder tea.

Usage notes

• Gunpowders refers to multiple formulations for the uncountable gunpowder.

Translations

explosive mixture

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

  Classical Syriac: ܒܐܪܘܕ‎ (bārūḏ)

• Armenian: վառոդ (hy) (vaṙod), բարութ (hy) (barutʿ) (dialectal)
• Assamese: বাৰুদ (barud)
• Azerbaijani: barıt (az)
• Bashkir: дары (darï)
• Belarusian: по́рах m (pórax)
• Bengali: বারুদ (barud)
• Bikol Central: ubat
• Bulgarian: бару́т m (barút)
• Burmese: ယမ်းမှုန့် (my) (yam:hmun.), ယမ်း (my) (yam:)
• Buryat: дари (dari)
• Catalan: pólvora f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 火藥, 火药 (fo² joek⁶)

  Mandarin: 火藥 (zh), 火药 (zh) (huǒyào)

• Czech: střelný prach m
• Danish: krudt n
• Daur: ort
• Dongxiang: hoye
• Dutch: buskruit (nl) n
• East Yugur: daari
• Erzya: толбочт (tolbočt)
• Esperanto: nigra pulvo, pulvo
• Estonian: püssirohi (et)
• Finnish: ruuti (fi)
• French: poudre à canon (fr) f, poudre (fr) f
• Galician: pólvora
• Georgian: დენთი (denti), წამალი (c̣amali)
• German: Schießpulver (de) n, Schwarzpulver (de) n
• Greek: μπαρούτι (el) (baroúti)
• Hebrew: אֲבַק שְׂרֵפָה‎ (he) (avak srefa)
• Hindi: बारूद (hi) f (bārūd)
• Hungarian: lőpor (hu), puskapor (hu)
• Icelandic: byssupúður n
• Indonesian: bubuk mesiu
• Irish: púdar gunna m
• Italian: polvere da sparo f, polvere pirica f
• Japanese: 火薬 (ja) (かやく, kayaku)
• Kalmyk: дәр (där)
• Kapampangan: ubat
• Kazakh: оқ-дәрі (oq-däri)
• Khmer: រំសេវ (km) (rumseew)
• Korean: 화약 (ko) (hwayak) (火藥 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: barût (ku)

  Sorani: باڕووت‎ (ku) (barrût)

• Kyrgyz: порох (ky) (poroh), дары (ky) (darı)
• Lao: ຫມຶ້ (mư), ໝື້ (lo) (mư̄)

• Latvian: šaujampulveris m
• Lithuanian: parakas m
• Macedonian: ба́рут m (bárut)
• Malay: masiu, mensiu
• Manchu: ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto)
• Manx: poodyr çhentagh m, poodyr m
• Maori: paura
• Mongghul: pau sman
• Mongolian: дарь (mn) (darʹ)
• Navajo: beeʼeldǫǫh bikǫʼ
• Nepali: बारूद (bārūda)
• Ngazidja Comorian: baruti
• Nivkh: меутю оӽт (meuțu oẋt)
• Norman: poudre à canon f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krutt (no) n

  Nynorsk: krut n

• Persian: باروت‎ (fa) (bârut), بارود‎ (bârud)
• Polish: proch (pl) m
• Portuguese: pólvora (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਬਾਰੂਦ (bārūd)
• Romanian: praf de pușcă (ro) n
• Russian: по́рох (ru) m (pórox), чёрный по́рох m (čórnyj pórox)
• Scottish Gaelic: fùdar-gunna m, fùdar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: барут m

  Roman: barut (sh) m

• Shan: ယၢမ်း (yáam)
• Shor: тар (tar)
• Slovak: strelný prach m
• Slovene: smodnik (sl) m
• Southern Altai: таары (taarï)
• Spanish: pólvora (es) f
• Swahili: baruti
• Swedish: krut (sv) n
• Tagalog: malilang, pulbura (tl)
• Tajik: борут (borut)
• Tatar: дары (tt) (darı)
• Telugu: పేలుడు మందు (pēluḍu mandu)
• Thai: ดินปืน (th) (din-bpʉʉn)
• Tibetan: མེ་རྫས (me rdzas)
• Turkish: barut (tr)
• Turkmen: däri
• Tuvan: дары (darı)
• Ukrainian: по́рох m (pórox)
• Urdu: بارود‎ f (bārūd)
• Uyghur: مىلتىق دورىسى‎ (miltiq dorisi)
• Uzbek: porox (uz)
• Vietnamese: thuốc súng
• Vilamovian: śispuwer
• Welsh: powdwr gwn, fflamlwch m
• Yakut: буорах (buorax)

See also

• powder burn