asbestos

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• Received-Pronunciation: /æsˈbɛs.tɒs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /æsˈbɛs.təs/
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• General-American: /æsˈbɛs.təs/
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• General-American: /æz-/
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• General-American: /əs-/
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From asbestos, from Old French abestos. * (Asbestos, Quebec): Named by the Royal Mail for the asbestos mines the mining settlement was setup for, when Canada was still a colony of Britain. The county was named for the town. * (Asbestos, Russia): English for the Russian term for asbestos, асбест (asbest)

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) Proto-Indo-European *(s)gwes-der.? Ancient Greek σβέννῡμῐ (sbénnūmĭ) Ancient Greek σβεστός (sbestós) Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos)bor. Latin asbestosbor. Old French abestosder. English asbestos From Old French abestos, from Latin asbestos, itself from Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos, “unquenchable, inextinguishable”), from ᾰ̓- (ă-, “not”) + σβέννῡμῐ (sbénnūmĭ, “to quench, quell”).

71 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: Asbestos — Asbestos, Quebec
• Afrikaans: asbes — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Albanian: asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Albanian: amiant — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Arabic: أَسْبِسْتُوس (ʔasbistus) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Arabic: أَسْبِسْت (ʔasbist) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Arabic: أَمْيانْت (ʔamyānt) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Armenian: ազբեստ (azbest) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Bulgarian: а́збест (ázbest) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Burmese: ကျောက်ဂွမ်း (kyaukgwam:) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Catalan: amiant — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Catalan: asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Chinese Mandarin: 石棉 (shímián) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Czech: azbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Danish: asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Dutch: asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Esperanto: asbesto — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Estonian: asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Finnish: asbesti — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• French: amiante — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Georgian: აზბესტი (azbesṭi) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• German: Asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Greek: αμίαντος (amíantos) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Hebrew: אזבסט (azbést) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Hungarian: azbeszt — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Icelandic: asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Indonesian: asbes — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Interlingua: asbesto — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Irish: aispeist — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Irish: aispeiste — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Italian: asbesto — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Italian: amianto — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Japanese: 石綿 — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Japanese: アスベスト (asubesuto) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Kazakh: талшықтас (talşyqtas) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Kazakh: асбес (asbes) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Khmer: អាស្ប៊ែស (ʼaasbɛɛh) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Korean: 석면 (seongmyeon) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Korean: 애스베스터스 (aeseubeseuteoseu) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Latvian: azbests — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Lithuanian: asbestas — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Malay: asbestos — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Malayalam: ആസ്ബസ്റ്റോസ് (āsbasṟṟōsŭ) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Māori: tēpoko — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Mongolian: асбест (asbest) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Navajo: doołikoní — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Norwegian Bokmål: asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Norwegian Nynorsk: asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Persian: پنبه نسوز (panbe-ye nasuz) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Persian: آزبست (âzbest) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Polish: azbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Portuguese: asbesto — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Portuguese: amianto — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Romanian: azbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Russian: асбе́ст (asbést) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Serbo-Croatian: а̀збест — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Serbo-Croatian: àzbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Slovak: azbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Slovene: azbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Spanish: asbesto — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Spanish: amianto — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Swahili: asbestosi — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Swedish: asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Tagalog: asbesto — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Tamil: கல்நார் (kalnār) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Thai: แร่ใยหิน (rɛ̂ɛ-yai-hǐn) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Turkish: asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Ukrainian: азбе́ст (azbést) — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Uzbek: asbest — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Vietnamese: miăng — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate
• Vietnamese: amiăng — any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate