sandstone

See also: Sandstone

English

Etymology

From Middle English sandston, from Old English *sandstān, from Proto-West Germanic *sandastain (“sandstone, chisel, gravel”), equivalent to sand +‎ stone. Cognate with West Frisian sânstien (“sandstone”), Saterland Frisian Soundsteen (“sandstone”), Dutch zandsteen (“sandstone”), German Low German Sandsteen (“sandstone”), German Sandstein (“sandstone”), Danish sandsten (“sandstone”), Swedish sandsten (“sandstone”), Icelandic sandsteinn (“sandstone”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsændˌstəʊn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsændˌstoʊn/

Noun

sandstone (countable and uncountable, plural sandstones)

A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, 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

Translations

sand/clay sedimentary rock

Albanian: gur ranor m
Arabic: حَجَر رَمْلِيّ m (ḥajar ramliyy)
Armenian: ավազաքար (hy) (avazakʻar)
Azerbaijani: qumdaşı
Basque: hareharri
Belarusian: пясча́нік m (pjasčánik)
Bulgarian: пя́съчник (bg) m (pjásǎčnik)
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) m
Esperanto: sabloŝtono, grejso
Estonian: liivakivi
Finnish: hiekkakivi (fi)
French: grès (fr) m
Georgian: ქვიშაქვა (kvišakva)
German: Sandstein (de) m
Greek: ψαμμίτης (el) m (psammítis)
Hawaiian: pōhāone
Hebrew: אֶבֶן חוֹל f (éven khól)
Hindi: बलुआ पत्थर m (baluā patthar)
Hungarian: homokkő (hu)
Icelandic: sandsteinn m
Ido: greso (io)
Indonesian: batu pasir, cadas (id)
Irish: gaineamhchloch f, cloch ghainimh f
Italian: arenaria (it)
Japanese: 砂岩 (ja) (さがん, sagan, しゃがん, shagan)
Javanese: ꦮꦢꦱ꧀ (wadas)
Kazakh: құмдақ (qūmdaq)
Khmer: ថ្មខ្សាច់ (thmɑɑ khsac), ថ្មគគ្រាត (thmɑɑ kɔkriət)
Korean: 사암(沙巖) (ko) (saam)
Kyrgyz: кумдук (kumduk), кумдак (kumdak), кум таш (kum taş)
Lao: ຫີນຊາຍ (hīn sāi)
Latvian: smilšakmens (lv) m
Lithuanian: smiltainis m
Macedonian: песочник m (pesočnik)
Malay: batu pasir
Maori: pīpīwai, tunaeke
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: элсэн чулуу (elsen čuluu)
Navajo: tsé dizéígíí
Norman: pièrre dé grès f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sandstein m

Nynorsk: sandstein m
Occitan: gres m
Persian: ماسه‌سنگ (mâse-sang)
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, пешча̀нӣк m, пешчѐња̄к m

Roman: peščar m, peščànīk m, peščènjāk m
Slovak: pieskovec (sk) m
Slovene: peščenjak (sl) m
Southern Altai: кумак таш (kumak taš)
Spanish: arenisca (es) f
Swedish: sandsten (sv) c
Tajik: регсанг (regsang)
Tatar: ком ташы (qom taşı)
Thai: หินทราย (hǐn-saai)
Turkish: kum taşı (tr)
Turkmen: gum daşy
Ukrainian: піскови́к m (piskovýk), піща́ник m (piščányk)
Uyghur: قۇم تېشى (qum tëshi)
Uzbek: qumtosh (uz)
Vietnamese: sa thạch (vi) (砂石)
Welsh: tywodfaen (cy)
Yiddish: זאַמדשטיין m (zamdshteyn)