chalk

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• Received-Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɔːk/
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From early Middle English Celc, from Old English ċealc (“chalk”)

Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek χᾰ́λῐξ (khắlĭx)bor.? substratebor.? Latin calxbor. Proto-West Germanic *kalk Old English ċealc Middle English chalk English chalk Inherited from Middle English chalk, chalke, from Old English ċealc, from Proto-West Germanic *kalk, borrowed from Latin calx (“limestone”), again borrowed from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”). Doublet of calx and cauk.

287 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kryt — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Albanian: shkumës — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Southern Altai: обо (obo) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Arabic: طَبْشُورَة (ṭabšūra) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Arabic: تباشير (tabašīr) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Armenian: կավիճ (kavič) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Asturian: xiz — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Azerbaijani: təbaşir — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Azerbaijani: ağdaş — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Bashkir: аҡбур (aqbur) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Bashkir: бур (bur) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Basque: klera — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Belarusian: крэ́йда (kréjda) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Belarusian: мел (mjel) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Bengali: সফেদা (śopheda) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Bengali: সফেদ (śophed) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Breton: kleiz — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Bulgarian: кре́да (kréda) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Catalan: creta — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Chinese Mandarin: 白堊 /白垩 (bái'è) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Cornish: krey — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Czech: křída — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Danish: kridt — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Dutch: krijt — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Dutch: krijtgesteente — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Emilian: żass — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Emilian: źas — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Emilian: gess — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Erzya: пор (por) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Esperanto: kreto — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Estonian: kriit — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Faroese: krit — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Finnish: liitukivi — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Finnish: liitu — soft, white, powdery limestone
• French: craie — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Friulian: ges — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Galician: xiz — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Georgian: ცარცი (carci) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• German: Kreide — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Greek: κιμωλία (kimolía) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Ancient Greek: γύψος (gúpsos) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Greenlandic: allaat — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Hindi: चूना (cūnā) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Hindi: खड़िया (khaṛiyā) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Hindi: चाक (cāk) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Hungarian: kréta — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Icelandic: krítarsteinn — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Indonesian: kapur — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Ingrian: mela — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Irish: cailc — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Italian: gesso — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Italian: creta — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Japanese: 白亜 (hakua) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Kalmyk: церд (tserd) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Kamba: chokaa — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Karelian: miela — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Kashubian: kreda — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Kazakh: бор (bor) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Khmer: ដីស (dəy sɑɑ) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Kikuyu: shokaa — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Komi-Zyrian: мел (mel) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Korean: 백악 (baegak) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Central Kurdish: گەچ (geç) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Kyrgyz: бор (bor) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Lao: ປູນ (pūn) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Latin: crēta — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Latvian: krīts — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Ligurian: tæra róssa — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Lithuanian: kreida — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Lombard: creia — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Luhya: echokaa — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Luxembourgish: Kräid — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Macedonian: креда (kreda) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Macedonian: вар (var) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Malay: kapur — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Manx: kelk — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Eastern Mari: пор (por) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Western Mari: пор (por) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Meru: ckoka — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Meru: choka — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Neapolitan: creta — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Nepali: चूना (cūnā) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Norman: craie — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Norwegian Bokmål: kritt — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Norwegian Nynorsk: krit — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Occitan: greda — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Old English: ċealc — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Oromo: boronqii — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Pannonian Rusyn: крейда (krejda) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Pashto: تباشير (tabāšir) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Dari: گَچ (gač) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Iranian Persian: گَچ (gač) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Piedmontese: creja — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Plautdietsch: Kjried — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Polish: kreda — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Portuguese: gesso — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Romanian: cretă — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Russian: мел (mel) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Scottish Gaelic: cailc — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Serbo-Croatian: кре́да — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Serbo-Croatian: ва́пно — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Serbo-Croatian: kréda — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Serbo-Croatian: vápno — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Siberian Tatar: упта (upta) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Slovak: krieda — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Slovene: kreda — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Lower Sorbian: krida — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Spanish: tiza — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Spanish: creta — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Swahili: chaki — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Swedish: krita — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Tagalog: tisa — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Tagalog: yeso — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Tajik: бӯр (bür) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Tajik: табошир (tabošir) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Tajik: гач (gač) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Tatar: оба (oba) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Telugu: సుద్ద (sudda) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Thai: หินดินสอพอง — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Turkish: tebeşir — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Udi: мацӏикӏул (mac̣iḳul) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Udmurt: бур (bur) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Ukrainian: кре́йда (kréjda) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Urdu: کَھڑِیا (khaṛiyā) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Urdu: چاک (cāk) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Urdu: چُونا (cūnā) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Uyghur: بور (bor) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Uzbek: boʻr — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Vietnamese: phấn — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Vietnamese: đá phấn — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Vilamovian: krajd — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Võro: kriit' — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Votic: melto — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Welsh: sialc — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Yiddish: קרײַד (krayd) — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Yoruba: ṣọ́ọ̀kì — soft, white, powdery limestone
• Afrikaans: kryt — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Albanian: shkumës — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Southern Altai: обо (obo) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Arabic: طَبْشُورَة (ṭabšūra) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Arabic: تباشير (tabašīr) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Armenian: կավիճ (kavič) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Asturian: tiz — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Asturian: tiza — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Asturian: xiz — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Azerbaijani: tabaşir — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Azerbaijani: təbaşir — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Bashkir: аҡбур (aqbur) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Bashkir: бур (bur) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Basque: klera — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Basque: klariona — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Belarusian: крэ́йда (kréjda) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Belarusian: мел (mjel) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Bengali: চক (cok) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Breton: kleiz — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Bulgarian: тебеши́р (tebešír) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Bulgarian: кре́да (kréda) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Burmese: မြေဖြူခဲ (mrehpruhkai:) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Catalan: guix — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Chinese Mandarin: 粉筆 /粉笔 (fěnbǐ) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Chuvash: пурӑ (pură) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Crimean Tatar: bor — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Czech: křída — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Danish: kridt — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Dutch: krijt — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Dutch: krijtje — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Esperanto: kreto — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Estonian: kriit — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Faroese: krit — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Finnish: liitu — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• French: craie — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Galician: xiz — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Georgian: ცარცი (carci) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• German: Kreide — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Greek: κιμωλία (kimolía) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Greek: τεμπεσίρι (tempesíri) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Hebrew: גִּיר (gir) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Hindi: चाक (cāk) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Hindi: खड़िया (khaṛiyā) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Hungarian: kréta — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Iban: chok — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Icelandic: krít — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Indonesian: kapur tulis — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Indonesian: kapur — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Irish: cailc — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Italian: gessetto — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Japanese: チョーク (chōku) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Japanese: 白墨 (hakuboku) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Kalmyk: церд (tserd) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Kashubian: kreda — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Kazakh: бор (bor) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Khmer: ដីស (dəy sɑɑ) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Komi-Zyrian: мел (mel) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Korean: 분필 (bunpil) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Central Kurdish: تەباشیر (tebaşîr) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Central Kurdish: گەچ (geç) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Kyrgyz: бор (bor) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Lao: ສໍຂາວ (sǭ khāo) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Latvian: krīts — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Lithuanian: kreida — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Luxembourgish: Kräid — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Macedonian: креда (kreda) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Malay: kapur tulis — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Malay: kapur — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Malayalam: ചോക്ക് (cōkkŭ) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Māori: tioka — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Marathi: खडू (khaḍū) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Eastern Mari: пор (por) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Western Mari: пор (por) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Moksha: пур (pur) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Mongolian: шохой (šoxoj) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Mongolian: цэрд (cerd) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Navajo: dleesh — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Navajo: bee naʼadzooí — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Nepali: चक (cak) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Nepali: खरीमट्टी (kharīmaṭṭī) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Norman: craie — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Norwegian Bokmål: kritt — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Norwegian Nynorsk: krit — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Occitan: greda — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Pashto: تباشير (tabāšír) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Dari: گَچ (gač) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Iranian Persian: گَچ (gač) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Polish: kreda — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Portuguese: giz — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Romanian: cretă — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Russian: мел (mel) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Russian: мело́к (melók) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Scottish Gaelic: cailc — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Serbo-Croatian: кре́да — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Serbo-Croatian: kréda — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Siberian Tatar: упта (upta) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Slovak: krieda — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Slovene: kreda — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Lower Sorbian: krida — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Upper Sorbian: kryda — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Spanish: tiza — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Spanish: gis — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Spanish: clarión — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Spanish: pizarrín — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Spanish: tizate — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Spanish: yaramme — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Swahili: chaki — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Swedish: krita — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Tagalog: tisa — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Tagalog: yeso — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Tajik: бӯр (bür) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Tajik: табошир (tabošir) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Tajik: гач (gač) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Tatar: бур (bur) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Tatar: акбур (aqbur) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Tatar: оба (oba) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Telugu: సుద్దముక్క (suddamukka) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Thai: ชอล์ก (chɔ́k) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Turkish: tebeşir — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Ottoman Turkish: تباشیر (tebeşir) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Turkmen: hek — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Turkmen: mel — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Udi: кӏавучӏ (ḳavuč̣) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Udi: мацӏикӏул (mac̣iḳul) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Udmurt: бур (bur) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Ukrainian: кре́йда (kréjda) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Urdu: چاک (cāk) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Urdu: کَھڑِیا (khaṛiyā) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Uyghur: بور (bor) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Uzbek: boʻr — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Vietnamese: phấn — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Vietnamese: phấn viết — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Vietnamese: phấn viết bảng — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Vilamovian: krajd — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Welsh: sialc — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Yakut: миэл (miel) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Yiddish: קרײַד (krayd) — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Yoruba: ṣọ́ọ̀kì — a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard
• Catalan: magnèsia — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• Dutch: pof — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• Dutch: magnesium — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• Dutch: kalk — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• Finnish: liitu — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• Finnish: magnesium — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• French: magnésie — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• German: Magnesiapulver — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• Hindi: चूना (cūnā) — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• Icelandic: magnesíum — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• Polish: magnezja — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• Spanish: magnesio — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics
• Turkish: magnezyum — white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics