sandstone

English

Etymology

sand +‎ stone

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsændˌstəʊn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsændˌstoʊn/

Noun

sandstone (countable and uncountable, plural sandstones)

1. A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 32:

     It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.

Hypernyms

• stone

Hyponyms

• metasandstone

Derived terms

• sandstonelike

Translations

sand/clay sedimentary rock

• Arabic: حَجَر رَمْلِيّ‎ m (ḥajar ramliyy)
• Armenian: ավազաքար (hy) (avazakʿar)
• Basque: hareharri
• Bulgarian: пясъчник m (pjasǎčnik)
• Burmese: သဲကျောက် (my) (sai:kyauk)
• Catalan: gres m, pedra sorrenca f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 砂岩 (zh) (shāyán)

• Czech: pískovec (cs) m
• Danish: sandsten (da) c
• Dutch: zandsteen (nl)
• Esperanto: sabloŝtono, grejso
• Finnish: hiekkakivi (fi)
• French: grès (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Sandstein (de) m
• Greek: ψαμμίτης (el) m (psammítis)
• Hawaiian: pōhāone
• Hebrew: אבן חול‎ f (even chól)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: homokkő (hu)
• Icelandic: sandsteinn m
• Ido: greso (io)
• Irish: gaineamhchloch f, cloch ghainimh f
• Italian: arenaria (it)

• Japanese: 砂岩 (さがん, sagan, しゃがん, shagan)
• Korean: 사암(沙巖) (ko) (saam)
• Maori: pīpīwai, tunaeke
• Navajo: tsé dizéígíí
• Norman: pièrre dé grès f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sandstein m

  Nynorsk: sandstein m

• Occitan: gres m
• Polish: piaskowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: arenito (pt) m
• Romanian: gresie (ro)
• Romansch: crap da sablun m
• Russian: песча́ник (ru) m (pesčánik)
• Scottish Gaelic: clach-ghainmhich f
• Serbo-Croatian: pješčenjak (sh) m

  Cyrillic: пешчар m, пешчаник m, пешчењак m

  Roman: peščar m, peščanik m, peščenjak m

• Southern Altai: кумак таш (kumak taš)
• Spanish: arenisca (es) f
• Swedish: sandsten (sv) c
• Thai: หินทราย (hǐn-saai)
• Turkish: kum taşı (tr)
• Vietnamese: sa thạch (vi)
• Welsh: tywodfaen (cy)
• Yiddish: זאַמדשטיין‎ m (zamdshteyn)

Further reading

• sandstone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia