gunpowder

See also: gun powder

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌnˌpaʊdə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌnˌpaʊdɚ/

Etymology 1

gun +‎ powder

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.

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 (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏪᎳᎩᏍᎩ (adawelagisgi)
• 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 (gl)
• Georgian: დენთი (denti), წამალი (c̣amali)
• German: Schießpulver (de) n, Schwarzpulver (de) n
• Greek: μπαρούτι (el) n (baroúti)
• Hebrew: אֲבַק שְׂרֵפָה‎ (he) (avak srefa)
• Hindi: बारूद (hi) f (bārūd)
• Hungarian: lőpor (hu), puskapor (hu)
• Icelandic: byssupúður n
• Indonesian: bubuk mesiu
• Interlingua: pulvere
• 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(火藥) (ko) (hwayak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: باڕووت‎ (barrût)

  Northern Kurdish: barût (ku)

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

• Latvian: šaujampulveris m
• Lithuanian: parakas m
• Macedonian: барут m (barut)
• Malay: masiu, mensiu
• Malayalam: വെടിമരുന്ന് (ml) (veṭimarunnŭ)
• Manchu: ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto)
• Manx: poodyr çhentagh m, poodyr m
• Maori: paura
• Mongghul: pau sman
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дарь (mn) (dari)

• Navajo: beeʼeldǫǫh bikǫʼ
• Nepali: बारूद (bārūd)
• 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)
• Plautdietsch: Scheetpulwa n
• 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: ба́рут m

  Roman: bárut (sh) m

• Shan: ယၢမ်း (shn) (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 (vi)
• Vilamovian: śispuwer
• Welsh: powdwr gwn, fflamlwch m
• Yakut: буорах (buorax)

Derived terms

• gunpowder chicken
• gunpowder empire
• gunpowderish
• gunpowderous
• Gunpowder Plot
• gunpowder tea
• Gunpowder Treason
• gunpowdery

See also

• powder burn

Etymology 2

Possibly due to its smell resembling gunpowder during the British Raj.

Noun

gunpowder (uncountable)

1. (India, informal) Idli podi/milagai podi; ground-up dry spices mixed with oil and ghee and served alongside idli or dosa.
   • 1989, Bombay: The City Magazine, page 26:

     Some restaurants try and give their dosas the "ethnic" touch by slipping along a small dish of mulaga podi-gunpowder mixed with oil as well, but that isn't always enough.

   • 2015 June 12, Priyadarshini Nandy, “South India's Spice Hero: How to Make the Famous Gunpowder”, in NDTV‎^[1]:

     It was a hardcore Andhra lunch from a restaurant famous for its lunch meals. And that is where I had my first run-in with 'gunpowder'. And to be honest, I hated it.

   • 2020 May 27, Pooja Pillai, “The Back Burner: Homemade molagapodi is easier than you think”, in The Indian Express‎^[2]:

     In fact, I’ve long suspected that the popularity of gunpowder or molagapodi outside South India has little to do with the burst of flavours it serves.