basalt

See also: Basalt

English

A basalt rock.

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”),

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbæs.ɒlt/, /ˈbæs.əlt/, /ˈbæs.ɔːlt/

  • Audio (UK); /ˈbæs.ɒlt/:

    (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bəˈsɔlt/, /ˈbæs.ɔlt/, /ˈbeɪˌsɔlt/

  • Audio (US); /bəˈsɔlt/:

    (file)

  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /bəˈsɑlt/, /ˈbæs.ɑlt/, /ˈbeɪˌsɑlt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbæs.ɑlt/
• Rhymes: -æsɒlt, -æsəlt, -æsɔːlt
• Hyphenation: bas‧alt

Noun

basalt (countable and uncountable, plural basalts)

1. (mineralogy) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.
2. A type of unglazed pottery.

Hypernyms

• molten rock

Hyponyms

• flood basalt

Derived terms

• alkali basalt
• basaltic
• basaltiform
• basaltine
• basaltoid
• basaltware
• metabasalt
• metabasaltic
• nonbasalt
• picrobasalt
• plateau basalt
• trachybasalt

 

Translations

hard rock

• Albanian: bazalt m
• Arabic: بَازَلْت m (bāzalt)
• Aragonese: basalto m
• Armenian: բազալտ (hy) (bazalt)
• Asturian: basaltu m
• Azerbaijani: bazalt
• Basque: basalto
• Belarusian: база́льт m (bazálʹt)
• Bulgarian: база́лт (bg) m (bazált)
• Catalan: basalt m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 玄武岩 (hiân-bú-giâm)

  Mandarin: 玄武岩 (zh) (xuánwǔyán)

• Czech: čedič (cs) m
• Danish: basalt (da) c
• Dutch: basalt (nl) n
• Esperanto: bazalto
• Estonian: basalt (et)
• Faroese: basalt n, blágrýti n
• Finnish: basaltti (fi)
• French: basalte (fr)
• Galician: basalto
• Georgian: ბაზალტი (bazalṭi)
• German: Basalt (de) m
• Greek: βασάλτης (el) m (vasáltis)
• Greenlandic: agiamineq, agiaq, basalti
• Hebrew: בַּזֶּלֶת (he) m (bazélet)
• Hindi: बेसाल्ट (besālṭ)
• Hungarian: bazalt (hu)
• Icelandic: basalt (is), blágrýti (is) n
• Ido: bazalto (io)
• Indonesian: basalt
• Irish: basalt m
• Italian: basalto (it)
• Japanese: 玄武岩 (ja) (げんぶがん, genbugan)
• Kazakh: базальт (bazalt)
• Khmer: ភូរាល (phuuriəl), បាសាល (baasaal), ថ្មបាសាល (thmɑɑbaasaal)
• Korean: 현무암(玄武巖) (ko) (hyeonmuam)
• Kyrgyz: базальт (bazalt)
• Latvian: bazalts m
• Lithuanian: bazaltas (lt) m
• Low German: basalt
• Macedonian: базалт m (bazalt)
• Malay: basalt
• Maori: karā, pakawera
• Marathi: बसाल्ट खडक (basālṭa khaḍak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: basalt m

  Nynorsk: basalt m

• Persian: بازالت (fa) (bâzâlt)
• Polish: bazalt (pl) m
• Portuguese: basalto (pt) m
• Quechua: basaltu
• Romanian: bazalt (ro) n
• Russian: база́льт (ru) m (bazálʹt)
• Samogitian: bazalts
• Scottish Gaelic: basalt
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ба̀залт m

  Roman: bàzalt (sh) m

• Slovak: bazalt m, čadič (sk) m
• Slovene: bazalt (sl) m
• Spanish: basalto (es) m
• Sundanese: basalt
• Swedish: basalt (sv) c
• Tagalog: basalto, batumbakal
• Tajik: базалт (bazalt)
• Thai: หินบะซอลต์, บะซอลต์ (bà-sɔ́l)
• Turkish: bazalt (tr)
• Ukrainian: база́льт (uk) m (bazálʹt)
• Uzbek: bazalt (uz)
• Vietnamese: ba-zan, ba-dan
• Welsh: basalt
• Yiddish: באַזאַלט m (bazalt)

Anagrams

• Labats, Tablas, tablas, talabs

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈzal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bəˈzalt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈzalt]

Noun

basalt m (plural basalts)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basàltic

 

Further reading

• “basalt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “basalt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “basalt” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “basalt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French basalte, from Middle French basalte, from Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːˈzɑlt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ba‧salt
• Rhymes: -ɑlt

Noun

basalt n (uncountable)

1. basalt (type of igneous rock)

Derived terms

• basaltblok
• basaltdijk
• basalten
• basalttalud

 

Descendants

• → Indonesian: basal

Faroese

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paˈsal̥t]

Noun

basalt n (genitive singular basalts, uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) basalt

Declension

Declension of basalt (singular only)
n3s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	basalt	basaltið
accusative	basalt	basaltið
dative	basalti	basaltinum
genitive	basalts	basaltsins

Synonyms

• blágrýti n

Irish

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (genitive singular basailt)

1. (mineralogy) basalt

Declension

Declension of basalt (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative basalt vocative a bhasailt genitive basailt dative basalt forms with the definite article case singular nominative an basalt genitive an bhasailt dative leis an mbasalt don bhasalt

Mutation

Mutated forms of basalt

radical	lenition	eclipsis
basalt	bhasalt	mbasalt

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “basalt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “basalt”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (definite singular basalten, indefinite plural basalter, definite plural basaltene)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basaltisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (definite singular basalten, indefinite plural basaltar, definite plural basaltane)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basaltisk