millibar

English

Etymology

From milli- +‎ bar.

Noun

millibar (plural millibars)

1. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100 pascals, used primarily to report atmospheric pressure.

Synonyms

• Symbol: mb, mbar
• hectopascal

Translations

non-SI unit of pressure

• Arabic: ميلي بار (milli barr)
• Catalan: mil·libar m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 毫巴 (hou⁴ baa¹), 毫米水銀柱／毫米水银柱 (hou⁴ mai⁵ seoi² ngan⁴ cyu⁵)

  Mandarin: 毫巴 (zh) (háobā)

• Finnish: millibaari (fi)
• French: millibar (fr) m
• German: Millibar n
• Hebrew: מיליבר (miliber)
• Icelandic: millibar n
• Irish: milleabar
• Italian: millibar (it) m
• Japanese: ミリバール (ja) (miribāru)
• Korean: 밀리바 (ko) (milliba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: millibar m

  Nynorsk: millibar m

• Portuguese: milibar m
• Romanian: milibar (ro) m
• Russian: миллиба́р (ru) m (millibár)
• Spanish: milibar m
• Thai: มิลลิบาร์
• Vietnamese: milibarơ

See also

• atmosphere
• millimetre of mercury
• pascal
• torr
• standard atmosphere

French

Noun

millibar m (plural millibars)

1. millibar

Further reading

• “millibar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Icelandic

Etymology

From milli- (“milli-”) +‎ bar (“bar”).

Noun

millibar n (genitive singular millibars, nominative plural millibör)

1. (meteorology) millibar

Synonyms

• hektópaskal n

Further reading

• “millibar” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English millibar. By surface analysis, milli- +‎ bar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil.li.bar/, /ˌmil.liˈbar/
• Rhymes: -illibar, -ar
• Hyphenation: mìl‧li‧bar, mil‧li‧bàr

Noun

millibar m (invariable)

1. (meteorology) millibar

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From milli- +‎ bar.

Noun

millibar m (definite singular millibaren, indefinite plural millibar, definite plural millibarene)

1. (meteorology) a millibar

References

• “millibar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “millibar” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From milli- +‎ bar.

Noun

millibar m (definite singular millibaren, indefinite plural millibar, definite plural millibarane)

1. (meteorology) a millibar

References

• “millibar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.