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coal

adj · name · noun · verb · 22 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /kəʊl/
  • Received-Pronunciation: [khɒʊɫ]
  • /kɒl/ doll–dole merger
  • Canada, General-American: /koʊl/
  • Canada, General-American: [khoɫ]
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian: /kəʉl/
  • Australian: [khɔʊɫ]
  • New-Zealand: /kɐʉl/
  • New-Zealand: [khɵ̞ʊ̯ɫ] cultivated
  • New-Zealand: [khäʉ̯ɫ] broad
  • rhymes with -əʊl
  • homophone: cole
  • homophone: kohl
  • CMU ARPABET: K OW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Black like coal; coal-black.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: no-comparative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri, United States, named after early settler Stephen Coale.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

An unincorporated community and coal town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

Four townships in the United States, in Missouri, Ohio (2), and Pennsylvania, listed under Coal Township.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • The coal in this region was prized by ironmasters in centuries past, who mined it in the spots where the drainage methods of the day permitted.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.

A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Examples

  • Put some coal on the fire.
  • Order some coal from the coalyard.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Examples

  • Put some coals on the fire.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Examples

  • hot coals
  • glowing coals
  • Just as the campfire died down to just coals, with no flames to burn the marshmallows, someone dumped a whole load of wood on, so I gave up and went to bed.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Charcoal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

Content of low quality.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • I'm so sick of seeing this coal online.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: gem

11

noun

Meaning 11

Bombs emitting black smoke on impact.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, slang, uncountable

Topics: government, military, politics, war

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Money.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

verb

Meaning 13

To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships or locomotives).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • 1863, Colonial Secretary to Commander Baldwin, USN shortly after that she coaled again at Simon's Bay; and that after remaining in the neighbourhood of our ports for a time, she proceeded to Mauritius, where she coaled again, and then returned to this colony.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

To supply with coal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • to coal a steamer
  • January 1917, National Geographic Magazine, Volume 31 Number 1, One Hundred British Seaports Cruisers may be coaled at sea and provided with ammunition openly. The submarine may not

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

verb

Meaning 15

To be converted to charcoal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

To burn to charcoal; to char.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

verb

Meaning 17

To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

noun

Meaning 18

a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ember

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fragment

19

noun

Meaning 19

fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fossil fuel, vegetable matter

Narrower terms: anthracite, anthracite coal, hard coal, bituminous coal, soft coal, lignite, brown coal, wood coal, steam coal

20

verb

Meaning 20

take in coal

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The big ship coaled

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: take in, gather in

21

verb

Meaning 21

supply with coal

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: supply, provide, render, furnish

22

verb

Meaning 22

burn to charcoal

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: char

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: burn, combust

History

Etymology

From Middle English col, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (“coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian kööl (“coal”), Saterland Frisian Koole (“coal”), West Frisian koal (“coal”), Cimbrian kholl (“coal”), Dutch kool (“coal; carbon”), German Kohle (“coal”), Limburgish Kǫe̩l (“coal”), Luxembourgish Kuel (“coal”), Vilamovian köła (“coal”), Yiddish קויל (koyl, “coal”), Danish kul (“coal”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kol (“coal; carbon”), Jamtish kuł (“coal; carbon”), Norwegian Bokmål kol, kull (“coal”). Compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic gual (“coal”), Manx geayl (“coal”), Lithuanian žvi̇̀lti (“to glow, twinkle”), Persian زکال (zakâl), زکار (zekâr), زغال (zoġâl, “coal”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), all from the same root.

Across languages

Translations

363 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: арацәа (aracwa) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Afrikaans: steenkool — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Albanian: qymyrgur — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Albanian: qymyr — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Aleut: uuglix̂ — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Arabic: فَحْم حَجَرِيّ (faḥm ḥajariyy) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Arabic: فَحْم (faḥm) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Arabic: فحم (faḥm) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Arabic: فَحَم (faḥam) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Arabic: فحم (fáḥem) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Aramaic: גמורתא (gmurtā) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Aramaic: ܓܡܘܪܬܐ (gmurtā) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Armenian: ածուխ (acux) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Armenian: քարածուխ (kʻaracux) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Aromanian: cãrbuni — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Asháninka: tsimenkito — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Assamese: কয়লা (koyola) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Asturian: carbón — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Azerbaijani: kömür — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Azerbaijani: daş kömür — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Bashkir: күмер (kümer) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Basque: ikatz — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Belarusian: ву́галь (vúhalʹ) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Belarusian: ка́менны ву́галь (kámjenny vúhalʹ) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Bengali: কয়লা (koẏla) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Central Bikol: uring — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Breton: glaou — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Bulgarian: въ́глища (vǎ́glišta) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Bulgarian: ка́менни въ́глища (kámenni vǎ́glišta) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Burmese: ကျောက်မီးသွေး (kyaukmi:swe:) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Catalan: carbó — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Cebuano: uling — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Cebuano: karbon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chakma: 𑄃𑄋𑄢𑄳𑄦 (āṅārāh) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chamicuro: kajs̈ho'meki — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chechen: кӏора (kʼora) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Cherokee: ᏥᏃᏍᎦ (tsinosga) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chichewa: malasha — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chinese Cantonese: 煤 (mui4) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chinese Cantonese: 煤炭 (mui4 taan3) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chinese: мый (mɨy) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chinese: мыйтан (mɨytan) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Hakka Chinese: 石炭 (sa̍k-than) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chinese: 煤 (mûi) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chinese: 煤炭 (mûi-thòan) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chinese: 石炭 (chio̍h-thòan) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chinese Mandarin: 煤 (méi) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chinese Mandarin: 煤炭 (méitàn) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chinese Mandarin: 石炭 (shítàn) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Wu Chinese: 煤 — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Choctaw: tobaksi — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chol: abʌc — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Chuvash: кӑмрӑк (kămrăk) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • East Circassian: фӏамыщӏ (fʼaməśʼ) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • West Circassian: шӏомыкӏы (šwʼoməkʼə) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Cornish: glow — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Corsican: carbone — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Cree: ᑲᐢᑲᐢᑭᓰᐦᑲᐣ (kaskaskisiihkan) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Montagnais: katshitekan — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Montagnais: mashku-katshiteu — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Czech: uhlí — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Dakota: chaxdí — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Dakota: makhápheta — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Danish: kul — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Dutch: kool — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Dutch: steenkool — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Elfdalian: kuol — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Erzya: седь (seď) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Esperanto: terkarbo — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Esperanto: karbo — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Estonian: süsi — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Evenki: элла (əlla) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Faroese: kol — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Finnish: kivihiili — uncountable: carbon rock
  • French: charbon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • French: houille — uncountable: carbon rock
  • West-Frisian: koal — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Friulian: cjarbon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Friulian: cjarvon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Friulian: čharvon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Galician: carbón — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Georgian: ნახშირი (naxširi) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • German: Kohle — uncountable: carbon rock
  • German: Steinkohle — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Bavarian German: kuin — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Central Franconian: koll — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Swabian: kohle — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Greek: γαιάνθρακας (gaiánthrakas) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Greek: λιθάνθρακας (lithánthrakas) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ancient Greek: ἄνθραξ (ánthrax) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Greenlandic: aamarsuit — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Paraguayan Guarani: tatapỹi — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Gujarati: કોયલો (koyalo) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Hausa: kwal — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Hawaiian: lānahu — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Hebrew: פֶּחָם (pekhám) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Hindi: कोयला (koylā) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • White Hmong: thee — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Hungarian: szén — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Icelandic: kol — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ido: karbono — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Igbo: obȯto — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ilocano: uging — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Indonesian: batu bara — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Indonesian: kol — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ingush: кӏор (kʼor) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Inuktitut: ᐊᕐᔭᒃᓴᖅ (aryaksaq) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Irish: gual — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Isnag: uxing — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Italian: carbone — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Japanese: 石炭 — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Japanese: 煤炭 (baitan) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Kannada: ಕಲ್ಲಿದ್ದಲು (kalliddalu) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Kannada: ಇದ್ದಲು (iddalu) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Kannada: ಇಜ್ಜಿಲು (ijjilu) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Karachay-Balkar: кёмюр (kömür) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Karelian: hiili — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Kazakh: көмір (kömır) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Khakas: кӧмір (kömìr) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Khmer: ធ្យូង (thyuung) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Konkani: इन्गाळो (ingāḷo) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Korean: 석탄 (seoktan) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Korean: 매탄 (maetan) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Kumyk: кёмюр (kömür) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Central Kurdish: خەڵوزی بەرد (xelluzî berd) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Central Kurdish: ڕەژوو (rejû) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Northern Kurdish: komirr — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Northern Kurdish: kumirr — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Northern Kurdish: rejî — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Kyrgyz: көмүр (kömür) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ladino: קארביון — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ladino: karvon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Lak: кӏалаш (kʼalaš) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Lak: хъуручӏ (quručʼ) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Lao: ຖ່ານຫີນ (thān hīn) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Latgalian: ūgle — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Latin: carbō — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Latvian: ogle — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Latvian: akmeņogle — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Laz: ნოშქერი (noşkeri) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Laz: ნოშქეი (noşkei) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Limburgish: koeal — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Limburgish: kaol — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Limburgish: keul — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Lingala: makala — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Lithuanian: anglis — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Lithuanian: akmens anglis — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Low German: kuole — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Luba-Kasai: dikala — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Luba-Katanga: dikala — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ludian: hilʹ — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Luxembourgish: Kuel — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Macedonian: јаглен (jaglen) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Macedonian: ќумур (ḱumur) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Maguindanao: uling — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Malagasy: arintany — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Malagasy: tomboka — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Malay: arang batu — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Malayalam: കൽക്കരി (kalkkari) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Maltese: faħam — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Manchu: ᠶᠠᡥᠠ (yaha) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Manx: geayl — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Māori: waro — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Mapudungun: kuyub — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Maranao: oring — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Marathi: कोळसा (koḷsā) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Mingrelian: ნოშქვერი (noškveri) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Mohawk: o’swén:ta — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Moksha: седь (seď) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Mongolian: нүүрс (nüürs) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Mongolian: ᠨᠡᠭᠦᠷᠡᠰᠦ (negüresü) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Nahuatl: teconalli — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Navajo: tsékǫʼ — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Navajo: łeejin — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Neapolitan: cravone — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Neapolitan: carvùnë — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Neapolitan: grauna — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Nepali: कोइला (koilā) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Norman: tcherbaon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Norman: tchèrbon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Norman: qùerboun — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kull — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kol — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kol — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Occitan: carbon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Odia: କୋଇଲା (koilā) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ojibwe: akakanshe — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Church Slavic: ѫгль (ǫglĭ) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Church Slavic: ⱘⰳⰾⱐ (ǫglĭ) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Old East Slavic: угъль (ugŭlĭ) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Old East Slavic: угль (uglĭ) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ossetian: ӕвзалы (ævzaly) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Mezquital-Otomi: theñha — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Pangasinan: oring — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Pashto: ذغال (zǧāl) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Pennsylvania German: Kohl — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Iranian Persian: ذُغالسَنْگ (zoġâl-sang) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Iranian Persian: ذُغال (zoġâl) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Pirahã: hoaípói — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Plautdietsch: Kol — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Polabian: vǫďėl — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Polish: węgiel — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Portuguese: carvão — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Punjabi: ਕੋਲਾ (kolā) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Quechua: k'illimsa — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Rapa Nui: arahu — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Rapa Nui: ngarahu — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Romagnol: carbôn — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Romanian: cărbune — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Romansh: charvun — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Romansh: carvung — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Romansh: cravun — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Romansh: charbun — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Romansh: cotgel — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Romansh: cotgla — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Russian: у́голь (úgolʹ) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Russian: ка́менный у́голь (kámennyj úgolʹ) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Inari-Sami: čiđđâ — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Northern Sami: geađgekoalla — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Sanskrit: अंगारः (aṃgāraḥ) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Sardinian: calvone — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Sardinian: carvone — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Sardinian: carbone — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Sardinian: crabone — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Sardinian: carboni — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Scottish Gaelic: gual — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Koyraboro-Senni: denji — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Serbo-Croatian: угаљ — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Serbo-Croatian: угљен — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Serbo-Croatian: ћумур — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Serbo-Croatian: ugalj — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Serbo-Croatian: ugljen — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Serbo-Croatian: ćumur — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Shor: кӧбӱр (köbür) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Sicilian: carvuni — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Sicilian: carbuni — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Sicilian: cravuni — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Sicilian: crauni — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Silesian: wōngel — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Sinhalese: ගල්අතුරු (galaturu) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Slovak: uhlie — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Slovene: premog — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Slovene: ogel — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Somali: dhuxul — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Upper Sorbian: wuhlo — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Spanish: carbón — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Spanish: hulla — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Swahili: kaa — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Swahili: mkaa — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Swazi: lilahla — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Swedish: kol — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Swedish: stenkol — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Tagalog: uling — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Tajik: ангишт (angišt) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Tajik: ангиштсанг (angištsang) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Tajik: зуғолсанг (zuġolsang) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Tamil: நிலக்கரி (nilakkari) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Tatar: күмер (kümer) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Telugu: బొగ్గు (boggu) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Tetum: anar — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Thai: ถ่านหิน (tàan-hǐn) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Tibetan: རྡོ་སོལ (rdo sol) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Tibetan: རྡོ་གསོལ (rdo gsol) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Turkish: kömür — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ottoman Turkish: كومور (kömür) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Turkmen: kömür — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Tzeltal: ac'al — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Tzotzil: ac'al — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Udmurt: эгыр (egyr) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ukrainian: вугі́лля (vuhíllja) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ukrainian: ка́м'яне вугі́лля (kámʺjane vuhíllja) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Ukrainian: ву́гля (vúhlja) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Urdu: کوئِلَہ (koila) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Uyghur: كۆمۈر (kömür) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Uzbek: koʻmir — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Vehes: carbó — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Venetan: carbon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Veps: hilʹ — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Vietnamese: than đá — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Vilamovian: köła — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Volapük: kolat — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Võro: hüdsi — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Votic: süsi — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Walloon: hoye — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Walloon: tcherbon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Waray-Waray: uring — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Waray-Waray: karbon — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Welsh: glo — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Wolof: këriñ — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Xhosa: amalahle — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Yakut: чох (čoq) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Yámana: ikipašax — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Yiddish: קויל (koyl) — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Yucatec Maya: chúuk — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Yup'ik: cupun — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Isthmus Zapotec: buu — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Zoogocho Zapotec: baoꞌ — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Zulu: amalahle — uncountable: carbon rock
  • Armenian: ածուխ (acux) — countable: carbon rock
  • Belarusian: вуго́льчык (vuhólʹčyk) — countable: carbon rock
  • Bulgarian: въ́глен (vǎ́glen) — countable: carbon rock
  • Catalan: carbó — countable: carbon rock
  • Chinese Mandarin: 煤 (méi) — countable: carbon rock
  • Dutch: kool — countable: carbon rock
  • Finnish: hiili — countable: carbon rock
  • French: charbon — countable: carbon rock
  • Galician: carbón — countable: carbon rock
  • German: Kohle — countable: carbon rock
  • Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 (hauri) — countable: carbon rock
  • Greek: κάρβουνο (kárvouno) — countable: carbon rock
  • Ancient Greek: ἄνθραξ (ánthrax) — countable: carbon rock
  • White Hmong: thee — countable: carbon rock
  • Hungarian: szén — countable: carbon rock
  • Italian: carbone — countable: carbon rock
  • Japanese: 石炭 — countable: carbon rock
  • Japanese: 煤炭 (baitan) — countable: carbon rock
  • Korean: 석탄 (seoktan) — countable: carbon rock
  • Korean: 매탄 (maetan) — countable: carbon rock
  • Malay: arang batu — countable: carbon rock
  • Marathi: कोळसा (koḷsā) — countable: carbon rock
  • Navajo: łeejin — countable: carbon rock
  • Iranian Persian: ذُغال (zoġâl) — countable: carbon rock
  • Iranian Persian: زُغال (zoġâl) — countable: carbon rock
  • Iranian Persian: اَنْگِشْت (angešt) — countable: carbon rock
  • Portuguese: carvão — countable: carbon rock
  • Portuguese: hulha — countable: carbon rock
  • Romagnol: carbôn — countable: carbon rock
  • Romanian: cărbune — countable: carbon rock
  • Russian: уголёк (ugoljók) — countable: carbon rock
  • Scottish Gaelic: gual — countable: carbon rock
  • Spanish: carbón — countable: carbon rock
  • Swedish: kol — countable: carbon rock
  • Swedish: kolbit — countable: carbon rock
  • Tajik: ангишт (angišt) — countable: carbon rock
  • Taos: ùyphaʼána — countable: carbon rock
  • Ukrainian: вугі́ллячко (vuhílljačko) — countable: carbon rock
  • Urdu: زُغال (zuġāl) — countable: carbon rock
  • Urdu: اَن٘گِشْت (aṅgiśt) — countable: carbon rock
  • Welsh: glöyn — countable: carbon rock
  • Catalan: brasa — smouldering material
  • Dutch: kool — smouldering material
  • Finnish: hiillos — smouldering material
  • French: tisons — smouldering material
  • German: Kohle — smouldering material
  • Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 (hauri) — smouldering material
  • Greek: κάρβουνο (kárvouno) — smouldering material
  • Greek: άνθρακας (ánthrakas) — smouldering material
  • Hungarian: szén — smouldering material
  • Irish: aibhleog — smouldering material
  • Irish: smeachóid — smouldering material
  • Irish: sméaróid — smouldering material
  • Italian: tizzone — smouldering material
  • Macedonian: ќумур (ḱumur) — smouldering material
  • Manx: geayl — smouldering material
  • Māori: ngoungou — smouldering material
  • Māori: konga — smouldering material
  • Portuguese: brasa — smouldering material
  • Romanian: tăciune — smouldering material
  • Romanian: cărbune — smouldering material
  • Spanish: brasa — smouldering material
  • Swedish: glöd — smouldering material
  • Welsh: colsyn — smouldering material
  • Welsh: marworyn — smouldering material