lignite

See also: Lignite

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French lignite, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lignum (“firewood”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: lĭgnīt
• IPA^(key): /lɪɡnaɪ̯t/

Noun

lignite (countable and uncountable, plural lignites)

1. A low-grade, brownish-black coal

   Lignite is the main natural resource of Thailand.

Synonyms

• brown coal

Translations

coal

• Afrikaans: bruinkool, ligniet
• Albanian: linjiti m
• Arabic: فحم بني m (faḥm bunniyy)
• Armenian: լիգնիտ (hy) (lignit), գորշ ածուխ (hy) (gorš acux)
• Asturian: lignitu m
• Basque: lignito, ikatz arrea
• Belarusian: бу́ры ву́галь m (búry vúhalʹ), лігніт m (lihnit)
• Bengali: লিগনাইট (ligonaiṭ)
• Bulgarian: лигнит m (lignit)
• Burmese: ကျောက်မီးသွေးနု (kyaukmi:swe:nu.)
• Catalan: lignit m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 褐煤 (hot³ mui⁴)

  Mandarin: 褐煤 (zh) (hèméi (mainland China) or héméi (Taiwan))

• Czech: hnědé uhlí n, lignit (cs) m
• Danish: brunkul (da) n
• Dutch: bruinkool (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: lignito (eo)
• Estonian: pruunsüsi
• Finnish: ruskohiili (fi)
• French: lignite (fr) m
• Galician: lignito (gl) m
• Georgian: ბურა ნახშირი (bura naxširi)
• German: Braunkohle (de) m
• Greek: λιγνίτης (el) m (lignítis)
• Hebrew: ליגניט m (lignit)
• Hindi: लिग्नाइट (lignāiṭ)
• Hungarian: barnaszén (hu), lignit (hu)
• Icelandic: surtarbrandur m, brúnkol n
• Ido: lignito (io)
• Indonesian: lignit (id)
• Irish: gual donn m
• Italian: lignite (it) f
• Japanese: 褐炭 (かったん, kattan), 亜炭 (あたん, atan)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kazakh: лигнит (lignit)
• Korean: 갈탄 (ko) (galtan), 아탄 (atan)
• Kyrgyz: күрөң көмүр (küröŋ kömür)
• Latin: lignitus m
• Latvian: lignīts m, brūnogles m
• Lithuanian: lignitas m, rusvoji anglis f
• Malagasy: linita (mg)
• Mongolian: хүрэн нүүрс (xüren nüürs)
• Navajo: łeejin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brunkull n, brunkol n

  Nynorsk: brunkol n

• Persian: زغال قهوه‌ای (zoġâl qahve'i)
• Polish: węgiel brunatny (pl) m
• Portuguese: linhite f, lignite f, lignito m (Brazil), linhito m
• Romanian: lignit (ro) n
• Russian: бу́рый у́голь m (búryj úgolʹ), лигни́т (ru) m (lignít)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лѝгнӣт m

  Roman: lìgnīt (sh) m

• Slovak: hnedé uhlie n, lignit (sk) m
• Slovene: lignit m, rjavi premog (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: brunica f, bruny wugel m

  Upper Sorbian: brunica f, brune wuhlo n

• Spanish: lignito (es) m
• Swedish: brunkol (sv) n, lignit
• Telugu: లిగ్నైట్ (lignaiṭ)
• Thai: ลิกไนต์ (th) (lík-nai)
• Turkish: linyit (tr)
• Ukrainian: бу́ре вугі́лля n (búre vuhíllja), лігні́т m (lihnít)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: лигнит (uz) (lignit)

  Roman: lignit

• Vietnamese: than nâu (vi)

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lignum n (“firewood”) + -ite

Noun

lignite f (plural lignites)

1. lignite (type of coal)

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Portuguese

Noun

lignite f (plural lignites)

1. lignite (type of coal)

Synonyms

• linhite