English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From lime stone
Pronunciation [ edit ] limestone (countable and uncountable plural limestones
An abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments ; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO3 ); it occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous .
a limestone viaduct
1939 Railway Magazine , page 68 :As each blast furnace uses 200 tons of limestone daily, and each limestone kiln 150 tons, a total of 730 tons of limestone has to be carried daily, in addition to limestone chippings, which are sold.
1907 Robert W[illiam] Chambers , chapter I, in The Younger Set , New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company , →OCLC The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
Synonyms [ edit ] Hyponyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments
Albanian: gur gëlqeror m
Arabic: حَجَر جِيرِيّ m ( ḥajar jīriyy ) , حَجَر كِلْسِيّ m ( ḥajar kilsiyy )
Armenian: կրաքար (hy) ( krakʻar )
Azerbaijani: əhəngdaşı (az)
Belarusian: вапня́к m ( vapnják )
Bengali: ঘুটিং (bn) ( ghuṭiṅ )
Bulgarian: варо́вик (bg) ( varóvik )
Burmese: ထုံးကျောက် (my) ( htum:kyauk )
Catalan: pedra calcària
Chinese:
Mandarin: 石灰岩 (zh) ( shíhuīyán ) , 灰岩 ( huīyán ) , 青石 (zh) ( qīngshí ) ( colloquial )
Classical Nahuatl: tenextetl
Czech: vápenec (cs) m
Danish: kalksten (da) c
Dutch: kalksteen (nl) n
Esperanto: kalkoŝtono (eo)
Estonian: lubjakivi
Finnish: kalkkikivi (fi)
French: calcaire (fr) m
Galician: calcaria (gl) f
Georgian: კირქვა ( ḳirkva )
German: Kalkstein (de) m Calciumcarbonat n Kalk (de) m
Greek: ασβεστόλιθος (el) m ( asvestólithos )
Hebrew: גִּיר (he) m ( gir ) , אֶבֶן גִּיר f ( even gir )
Hindi: चूना पत्थर m ( cūnā patthar )
Hungarian: mészkő (hu)
Icelandic: kalksteinn (is)
Indonesian: batu kapur (id)
Ingrian: kalkki kalkkikivi
Irish: aolchloch f cloch aoil f
Italian: calcare (it) m
Japanese: 石灰岩 (ja) ( せっかいがん, sekkaigan )
Kazakh: әктас (kk) ( äktas )
Khmer: ថ្មកំបោរ ( thmɑɑ kɑmbao ) , កំបោរថ្ម ( kɑmbao thmɑɑ )
Korean: 석회암(石灰岩) (ko) ( seokhoeam )
Kyrgyz: акиташ (ky) ( akitaş )
Lao: ຫິນປູນ ( hin pūn )
Latin: calx f
Latvian: kaļķakmens m
Lithuanian: klintis m
Macedonian: варовник m ( varovnik )
Malay: batu kapur
Maori: pākeho
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шохойн чулуу ( šoxojn čuluu )
Norman: pièrre dé caux f ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kalkstein m
Nynorsk: kalkstein m
Occitan: calcari (oc) m calquièr m
Persian: سنگ آهک ( sang âhak )
Pitjantjatjara: arpata
Plautdietsch: Kaulkjsteen n
Polish: wapień (pl) m
Portuguese: calcário (pt) m
Romanian: calcar (ro) n
Russian: известня́к (ru) m ( izvestnják )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кре̏чња̄к m вапне́нац m
Roman: krȅčnjāk (sh) m vapnénac (sh) m
Slovak: vápenec (sk) m
Slovene: apnenec (sl) m
Spanish: caliza (es) f
Swedish: kalksten (sv) c
Tajik: оҳаксанг ( ohaksang )
Tatar: известьташ ( izwest’taş )
Thai: หินปูน (th) ( hǐn-bpuun )
Tibetan: རྡོ་ཐལ་རྡོ ( rdo thal rdo ) , རྡོ་ཐལ་བྲག ( rdo thal brag )
Turkish: kireç taşı (tr)
Turkmen: hek daşy
Ukrainian: вапня́к (uk) m ( vapnják )
Urdu: چونا پتھر m ( cūnā patthar )
Uyghur: ھاك تېشى ( hak tëshi )
Uzbek: ohaktosh (uz)
Vietnamese: đá vôi (vi)
Welsh: calchfaen (cy) m carreg galch f
made of or with limestone
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