charcoal

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɑː.kəʊl/
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• General-American: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.koʊl/
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• rhymes with -ɑːkəʊl
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• rhymes with -ɑɹkoʊl
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• CMU ARPABET: CH AA1 R K OW2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English charcole, from charren (“to change, turn”) + cole (“coal”), from Old English cierran (“to change, turn”) + col (“coal”). By surface analysis, char (Etymology 3 [verb]) + coal.

243 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: antraciet — colour
• Esperanto: lignokarba — colour
• Finnish: antrasiitti — colour
• Georgian: ნახშირისფერი (naxširisperi) — colour
• German: Holzkohle — colour
• Irish: ar dhath an ghualaigh — colour
• Italian: antracite — colour
• Russian: древесный уголь (drevesnyj ugolʹ) — colour
• Swedish: antracitgrå — colour
• Swedish: antracit — colour
• Ukrainian: деревне вугілля (derevne vuhillja) — colour
• Afrikaans: houtskool — substance
• Dupaningan Agta: uging — substance
• Aguaruna: kayušik — substance
• Ahtna: tʼaes — substance
• Albanian: qymyr — substance
• Arabic: فَحْم الْخَشَب (faḥm al-ḵašab) — substance
• Armenian: փայտածուխ (pʻaytacux) — substance
• Assamese: এঙাৰ (eṅar) — substance
• Asturian: carbón vexetal — substance
• Avar: цӏцӏулал тӏуччи (ccʼulal tʼučči) — substance
• Avestan: 𐬯𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀 (skara) — substance
• Azerbaijani: odun kömürü — substance
• Bashkir: ағас күмере (ağas kümere) — substance
• Basque: ikatz — substance
• Belarusian: дрэ́ўны ву́галь (dréwny vúhalʹ) — substance
• Belarusian: ву́галь (vúhalʹ) — substance
• Central Bikol: uring — substance
• Breton: glaou koad — substance
• Bulgarian: дъ́рвен въ́глен (dǎ́rven vǎ́glen) — substance
• Bulgarian: въ́глен (vǎ́glen) — substance
• Bulgarian: дъ́рвени въ́глища (dǎ́rveni vǎ́glišta) — substance
• Burmese: မီးသွေး (mi:swe:) — substance
• Catalan: carbó vegetal — substance
• Chinese Cantonese: 木炭 (muk6 taan3) — substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 木炭 (mùtàn) — substance
• Cornish: glowbrenn — substance
• Czech: dřevěné uhlí — substance
• Danish: trækul — substance
• Danish: kul — substance
• Dutch: houtskool — substance
• Elfdalian: träkuol — substance
• Esperanto: lignokarbo — substance
• Estonian: puusüsi — substance
• Faroese: trækol — substance
• Faroese: viðarkol — substance
• Finnish: puuhiili — substance
• Finnish: sysi — substance
• French: charbon de bois — substance
• West-Frisian: houtskoal — substance
• Friulian: cjarbon — substance
• Friulian: cjarvon — substance
• Friulian: čharvon — substance
• Galician: carbón — substance
• Georgian: ხის ნახშირი (xis naxširi) — substance
• German: Holzkohle — substance
• Bavarian German: hoizkuin — substance
• Central Franconian: holzkoll — substance
• Swabian: holzkohle — substance
• Greek: κάρβουνο (kárvouno) — substance
• Ancient Greek: ἄνθραξ (ánthrax) — substance
• Hawaiian: lānahu — substance
• Hawaiian: nānahu — substance
• Hebrew: פֶּחָם עֵץ (pecham 'etz) — substance
• Hindi: चारकोल (cārkol) — substance
• Hindi: लकड़ी का कोयला (lakṛī kā koylā) — substance
• Hindi: काठकोयला (kāṭhkoylā) — substance
• White Hmong: thee — substance
• Hungarian: faszén — substance
• Icelandic: viðarkol — substance
• Igbo: íchẹoku — substance
• Indonesian: arang — substance
• Irish: fioghual — substance
• Irish: gualach — substance
• Isnag: uxing — substance
• Italian: carbone — substance
• Italian: carbonella — substance
• Japanese: 炭 (sumi) — substance
• Japanese: 木炭 (mokutan) — substance
• Japanese: チャコール (chakōru) — substance
• Javanese: areng — substance
• Kamba: makaa — substance
• Kannada: ಇದ್ದಿಲು (iddilu) — substance
• Kazakh: ағаш көмірі (ağaş kömırı) — substance
• Khmer: ធ្យូង (thyuung) — substance
• Kikuyu: makara — substance
• Korean: 숯 (sut) — substance
• Korean: 목탄 (moktan) — substance
• Central Kurdish: خەڵووز (xellûz) — substance
• Central Kurdish: ڕەژوو (rejû) — substance
• Northern Kurdish: komir — substance
• Northern Kurdish: rejî — substance
• Kyrgyz: жыгач көмүрү (jıgac kömürü) — substance
• Kyrgyz: жыгачтын көмүрү (jıgactın kömürü) — substance
• Lao: ຖ່ານ (thān) — substance
• Lao: ຖ່ານໄຟ (thān fai) — substance
• Latin: carbō — substance
• Latvian: ogles — substance
• Lave: houtskool — substance
• Limburgish: houtskaol — substance
• Lingala: likála — substance
• Lingala: makála — substance
• Lithuanian: anglis — substance
• Low German: holtkuole — substance
• Luhya: likaa — substance
• Luo: makaa — substance
• Luxembourgish: holzkuel — substance
• Macedonian: јаглен (jaglen) — substance
• Macedonian: ќумур (ḱumur) — substance
• Malagasy: àrina — substance
• Malay: arang — substance
• Malayalam: കരി (kari) — substance
• Maltese: faħam tal-injam — substance
• Manchu: ᠶᠠᡥᠠ (yaha) — substance
• Manx: geayl foiee — substance
• Māori: ngārehu — substance
• Māori: ngārahu — substance
• Mongolian: модны нүүрс (modny nüürs) — substance
• Nanai: сиалта (sialta) — substance
• Navajo: tʼeesh — substance
• Norwegian Bokmål: trekull — substance
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trekol — substance
• Occitan: carbon de fusta — substance
• Ojibwe: akakanzhe — substance
• Old East Slavic: угъль (ugŭlĭ) — substance
• Old East Slavic: угль (uglĭ) — substance
• Old English: col — substance
• Pashto: ذغال (zǧāl) — substance
• Persian: ذغال (zoġâl) — substance
• Persian: سکار (sakâr) — substance
• Persian: زغال (zoġâl) — substance
• Persian: انگشت (angešt) — substance
• Pitjantjatjara: aḻṯa — substance
• Plautdietsch: Holtkol — substance
• Polish: węgiel drzewny — substance
• Portuguese: carvão — substance
• Quechua: k'illimsa — substance
• Romani: angar — substance
• Romanian: cărbune — substance
• Romanian: cărbune de lemn — substance
• Romanian: cărbune vegetal — substance
• Russian: древе́сный у́голь (drevésnyj úgolʹ) — substance
• Russian: у́голь (úgolʹ) — substance
• Northern Sami: čađđa — substance
• Samoan: malāla — substance
• Sanskrit: अङ्गार (aṅgāra) — substance
• Scottish Gaelic: gual-fhiodha — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: дрвени угаљ — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: у̏гље̄н — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: drveni ugalj — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: ȕgljēn — substance
• Sicilian: carbonella — substance
• Silesian: drzewny wōngel — substance
• Slovak: drevené uhlie — substance
• Slovene: oglje — substance
• Somali: dhuxul dhagax — substance
• Southern Altai: агаш кӧмӱр (agaš kömür) — substance
• Spanish: carbón — substance
• Spanish: cisco — substance
• Spanish: herraj — substance
• Spanish: erraj — substance
• Spanish: piñuelo — substance
• Spanish: herraje — substance
• Spanish: tizana — substance
• Swahili: kaa — substance
• Swedish: träkol — substance
• Tagalog: uling — substance
• Tahitian: ʻārahu — substance
• Tajik: зуғол (zuġol) — substance
• Tajik: ангишт (angišt) — substance
• Tamil: கரி (kari) — substance
• Taos: úyna — substance
• Tatar: агач күмере (ağaç kümere) — substance
• Thai: ถ่านไม้ (tàan-máai) — substance
• Thai: ถ่าน (tàan) — substance
• Northern Thai: ᨳ᩵ᩣ᩠ᨶ — substance
• Northern Thai: ᨳ᩵ᩣ᩠ᨶᨾᩱ᩵ — substance
• Turkish: odun kömürü — substance
• Ottoman Turkish: كومور (kömür) — substance
• Ukrainian: деревне́ вугі́лля (derevné vuhíllja) — substance
• Ukrainian: вугі́лля (vuhíllja) — substance
• Unami: sëkaxkte — substance
• Uyghur: ياغاچ كۆمۈرى (yaghach kömüri) — substance
• Uzbek: pista koʻmir — substance
• Vehes: carbó vegetal — substance
• Venetan: carboneła — substance
• Vietnamese: than gỗ — substance
• Vietnamese: than củi — substance
• Welsh: golosg — substance
• Welsh: dylosg — substance
• Yámana: ikipašax — substance
• Yiddish: האָלצקויל (holtskoyl) — substance
• Basque: ekurrikatz — stick used for drawing
• Chinese Mandarin: 炭筆 /炭笔 (tànbǐ) — stick used for drawing
• Czech: uhel — stick used for drawing
• Dutch: houtskool — stick used for drawing
• Emilian: carbunsèin — stick used for drawing
• Finnish: hiili — stick used for drawing
• French: fusain — stick used for drawing
• Galician: caruncho — stick used for drawing
• Galician: mourón — stick used for drawing
• German: Kohle — stick used for drawing
• Greek: κάρβουνο (kárvouno) — stick used for drawing
• White Hmong: thee — stick used for drawing
• Hungarian: rajzszén — stick used for drawing
• Irish: gualach líníochta — stick used for drawing
• Irish: gualach — stick used for drawing
• Japanese: 木炭 (mokutan) — stick used for drawing
• Latvian: ogle — stick used for drawing
• Macedonian: јаглен (jaglen) — stick used for drawing
• Portuguese: carvão — stick used for drawing
• Romanian: cărbune — stick used for drawing
• Russian: у́голь (úgolʹ) — stick used for drawing
• Spanish: carboncillo — stick used for drawing
• Swedish: kolkrita — stick used for drawing
• Swedish: teckningskol — stick used for drawing
• Swedish: ritkol — stick used for drawing
• Turkish: karakalem — stick used for drawing
• Ukrainian: вугли́на (vuhlýna) — stick used for drawing
• Volapük: däsinakolat — stick used for drawing
• Chinese Mandarin: 木炭畫 /木炭画 (mùtànhuà) — charcoal drawing
• Chinese Mandarin: 炭畫 /炭画 (tànhuà) — charcoal drawing
• Czech: kresba uhlem — charcoal drawing
• Danish: kultegning — charcoal drawing
• Emilian: carbunsèin — charcoal drawing
• Finnish: hiilipiirros — charcoal drawing
• French: fusain — charcoal drawing
• Galician: carbonciño — charcoal drawing
• Greek: κάρβουνο (kárvouno) — charcoal drawing
• White Hmong: thee — charcoal drawing
• Hungarian: szénrajz — charcoal drawing
• Japanese: 木炭画 (mokutanga) — charcoal drawing
• Norwegian Bokmål: kulltegning — charcoal drawing
• Norwegian Bokmål: koltegning — charcoal drawing
• Russian: рису́нок углём (risúnok ugljóm) — charcoal drawing
• Swedish: kolteckning — charcoal drawing
• Finnish: sysimusta — colour
• Japanese: 消し炭色 (keshizumi iro) — colour
• Japanese: 墨色 (sumi iro) — colour
• Polish: antracyt — colour
• Romanian: antracit — colour
• Russian: угольный (ugolʹnyj) — colour
• Slovak: antracitová — colour