sandstone

English

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Etymology

sand +‎ stone

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsændˌstəʊn/
• (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.

Derived terms

• metasandstone

Translations

sand/clay sedimentary rock

• Arabic: حَجَر رَمْلِيّ m ‎(ḥajar ramliyy)
• Armenian: ավազաքար (hy) ‎(avazakʿar)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 砂岩 (zh) ‎(shāyán)

• Czech: pískovec (cs) m
• Danish: sandsten (da) c
• Dutch: zandsteen (nl)
• Esperanto: sabloŝtono
• Finnish: hiekkakivi (fi)
• French: grès (fr) m
• German: Sandstein (de) m
• Greek: ψαμμίτης (el) m ‎(psammítis), αμμόλιθος (el) m ‎(ammólithos), αμμόπετρα m ‎(ammópetra)
• 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)
• Italian: arenaria (it)

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

  Bokmål: sandstein m

  Nynorsk: sandstein m

• Polish: piaskowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: arenito (pt) m
• Romanian: gresie (ro)
• Russian: песча́ник (ru) m ‎(pesčánik)
• Scottish Gaelic: clach-ghainmhich f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пешчар m, пешчаник m, пешчењак m

  Roman: peščar m, peščanik m, peščenjak m

• Southern Altai: кумак таш ‎(kumak taş)
• Spanish: arenisca (es) f
• Swedish: sandsten c
• Thai: หินทราย
• Turkish: kumtaşı (tr)
• Vietnamese: sa thạch (vi)
• Welsh: tywodfaen (cy)