millibar

English

Etymology

From milli- +‎ bar.

Noun

millibar (plural millibars)

1. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100 pascals, used primarily to report atmospheric pressure.

Synonyms

• Symbol: mb, mbar
• hectopascal

Translations

non-SI unit of pressure

• Arabic: ميلي بار (milli barr)
• Catalan: mil·libar m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 毫巴 (hou⁴ baa¹), 毫米水銀柱 / 毫米水银柱 (hou⁴ mai⁵ seoi² ngan⁴ cyu⁵)

  Mandarin: 毫巴 (zh) (háobā)

• Finnish: millibaari (fi)
• French: millibar (fr) m
• German: Millibar n
• Hebrew: מיליבר (miliber)
• Icelandic: millibar n
• Irish: milleabar
• Italian: millibar (it) m
• Japanese: ミリバール (ja) (miribāru)
• Korean: 밀리바 (ko) (milliba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: millibar m

  Nynorsk: millibar m

• Portuguese: milibar m
• Romanian: milibar (ro) m
• Russian: миллиба́р (ru) m (millibár)
• Spanish: milibar m
• Thai: มิลลิบาร์
• Vietnamese: milibarơ

See also

• atmosphere
• millimetre of mercury
• pascal
• torr
• standard atmosphere

French

Noun

millibar m (plural millibars)

1. millibar

Further reading

• “millibar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Icelandic

Etymology

From milli- (“milli-”) +‎ bar (“bar”).

Noun

millibar n (genitive singular millibars, nominative plural millibör)

1. (meteorology) millibar

   Synonym: hektópaskal n

Declension

Declension of millibar (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	millibar	millibarið	millibör	millibörin
accusative	millibar	millibarið	millibör	millibörin
dative	millibari	millibarinu	millibörum	millibörunum
genitive	millibars	millibarsins	millibara	millibaranna

Further reading

• “millibar” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English millibar. By surface analysis, milli- +‎ bar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil.li.bar/, /ˌmil.liˈbar/
• Rhymes: -illibar, -ar
• Hyphenation: mìl‧li‧bar, mil‧li‧bàr

Noun

millibar m (invariable)

1. (meteorology) millibar

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From milli- +‎ bar.

Noun

millibar m (definite singular millibaren, indefinite plural millibar, definite plural millibarene)

1. (meteorology) a millibar

References

• “millibar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “millibar” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From milli- +‎ bar.

Noun

millibar m (definite singular millibaren, indefinite plural millibar, definite plural millibarane)

1. (meteorology) a millibar

References

• “millibar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.