pebble

English

Pebbles on a beach.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English papol, in papolstān. Apparently close to Albanian popël.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛb.əl/
• Rhymes: -ɛbəl

Noun

pebble (countable and uncountable, plural pebbles)

1. A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
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     the pebbles on the hungry beach

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     children gathering pebbles on the shore

2. (geology) A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
3. (curling) A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
4. Transparent and colourless rock crystal.

   Brazilian pebble

5. A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.

   Synonyms: cube powder, prismatic powder

Translations

stone

• Afrikaans: spoelklippie, kiesel
• Albanian: çakëll (sq) m, hakëll m
• Arabic: حَصَاة f (ḥaṣāh)

  Egyptian Arabic: حصوة f (ḥaṣwa)

  Hijazi Arabic: حَصْوة f (ḥaṣwa)

• Aromanian: chitritseauã f
• Brunei Malay: batu
• Catalan: còdol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 石仔 (sek⁶ zai²)

  Mandarin: 礫石／砾石 (zh) (lìshí), 砾石 (zh) (lìshí), 石子 (zh) (shízǐ), 卵石 (zh) (luǎnshí), 鵝卵石／鹅卵石 (zh) (éluǎnshí), 鹅卵石 (zh) (éluǎnshí)

• Classical Nahuatl: ātōyātetl
• Czech: oblázek (cs) m
• Danish: ral (da)
• Dutch: kiezel (nl)
• Esperanto: ŝtoneto
• Estonian: veeris
• Finnish: pikkukivi
• French: galet (fr) m (on a beach), caillou (fr) m
• Galician: seixo m, pelouro (gl) m, louro (gl) m, callau m, sento m, radego m, brello m, candollo m, xógara f, salavedro m, coio m, rebo m
• Georgian: კენჭი (ḳenč̣i)
• German: Stein (de) m, Steinchen (de) n, Kiesel (de) m, Kieselstein (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ψῆφος f (psêphos), χάλιξ m or f (khálix)

• Hindi: पथ्थर m (paththar)
• Hungarian: kavics (hu)
• Icelandic: steinn (is)
• Ido: stono (io), stoneto (io)
• Indonesian: kerikil (id)
• Irish: méaróg f
• Italian: ciottolo (it) m
• Japanese: 小石 (ja) (こいし, koishi)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
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• Korean: 자갈 (ko) (jagal)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latgalian: ūļs, akmisteņš
• Latin: calculus m, lapillus m
• Latvian: olis
• Luxembourgish: Wak m, Kiselsteen m
• Macedonian: камче n (kamče)
• Maltese: ċagħqa f
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: tséʼáwózí
• Norman: galet m, galot m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: småstein m, småsten m

  Nynorsk: småstein m

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kamyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: seixo (pt), pedregulho (pt) m, pedrinha (pt) f
• Romanian: pietricică (ro) f, pietriș (ro) n, prundiș (ro) n
• Russian: га́лька (ru) f (gálʹka)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèideag f
• Slovak: okruhliak m
• Spanish: guijarro (es) m, canto pelado m, canto rodado m, china (es) f
• Swedish: småsten (sv) c
• Tagalog: mikbato
• Tajik: шағал (tg) (šaġal)
• Thai: กรวด (th) (grùat)
• Turkish: çakıl (tr)
• Ukrainian: га́лька f (hálʹka)
• Welsh: carreg gron (cy) f
• Yiddish: שטײנד m (shteynd)

rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter

• French: gravillon (fr) m
• Macedonian: чакал m (čakal), грагор m (gragor)
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• Norwegian: grus (no) m, pukk
• Polish: otoczak (pl) m

small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice

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Verb

1. (transitive) To pave with pebbles.
2. (transitive, curling) To deposit water droplets on the ice.

   to pebble the ice between games

3. (transitive) To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
4. (transitive, graph theory) To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules; see pebble game.

Translations

To pave with pebbles

• Finnish: päällystää mukulakivillä
• Galician: chapacuñar
• Italian: acciottolare (it)
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• Norwegian: gruslegge
• Spanish: empedrar (es)

To deposit water droplets on the ice

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