dynamite

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• UK: /ˈdʌɪnəmʌɪt/
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• US: /ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/
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• obsolete: /ˈdɪ.nəˌmaɪt/
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Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”) + -ite, most likely under the influence of dynamo or dynamic.

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: dinamiet — class of explosives
• Albanian: dinamit — class of explosives
• Arabic: دِينَامِيت (dinamit) — class of explosives
• Armenian: ուժանակ (užanak) — class of explosives
• Asturian: dinamita — class of explosives
• Azerbaijani: dinamit — class of explosives
• Basque: dinamita — class of explosives
• Belarusian: дынамі́т (dynamít) — class of explosives
• Bulgarian: динами́т (dinamít) — class of explosives
• Catalan: dinamita — class of explosives
• Chinese Mandarin: 炸藥 /炸药 (zhàyào) — class of explosives
• Czech: dynamit — class of explosives
• Danish: dynamit — class of explosives
• Dutch: dynamiet — class of explosives
• Esperanto: dinamito — class of explosives
• Estonian: dünamiit — class of explosives
• Finnish: dynamiitti — class of explosives
• French: dynamite — class of explosives
• Galician: dinamita — class of explosives
• Georgian: დინამიტი (dinamiṭi) — class of explosives
• German: Dynamit — class of explosives
• Hebrew: דִינָמִיט (dinamit) — class of explosives
• Hindi: बारूद (bārūd) — class of explosives
• Hindi: बारूत (bārūt) — class of explosives
• Hungarian: dinamit — class of explosives
• Icelandic: dýnamít — class of explosives
• Ido: dinamito — class of explosives
• Ilocano: dinamita — class of explosives
• Irish: dinimít — class of explosives
• Italian: dinamite — class of explosives
• Japanese: ダイナマイト (dainamaito) — class of explosives
• Korean: 다이너마이트 (daineomaiteu) — class of explosives
• Lao: ດິນລະເບີດ (din la bœ̄t) — class of explosives
• Latvian: dinamīts — class of explosives
• Lithuanian: dinamitas — class of explosives
• Macedonian: динамит (dinamit) — class of explosives
• Malay: dinamit — class of explosives
• Māori: tainamaiti — class of explosives
• Marshallese: abba — class of explosives
• Marshallese: bo̧kutan̄ — class of explosives
• Navajo: tsé bee bił daʼdildoní — class of explosives
• Norwegian Bokmål: dynamitt — class of explosives
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dynamitt — class of explosives
• Occitan: dinamita — class of explosives
• Persian: دینامیت (dinâmit) — class of explosives
• Polish: dynamit — class of explosives
• Portuguese: dinamite — class of explosives
• Romanian: dinamită — class of explosives
• Russian: динами́т (dinamít) — class of explosives
• Serbo-Croatian: динамит — class of explosives
• Serbo-Croatian: dinamit — class of explosives
• Spanish: dinamita — class of explosives
• Swahili: baruti — class of explosives
• Swedish: dynamit — class of explosives
• Tagalog: dinamita — class of explosives
• Tamil: டைனமைட் (ṭaiṉamaiṭ) — class of explosives
• Telugu: డైనమైటు (ḍainamaiṭu) — class of explosives
• Turkish: dinamit — class of explosives
• Ukrainian: динамі́т (dynamít) — class of explosives
• Urdu: باروت (bārūt) — class of explosives
• Urdu: بارود (bārūd) — class of explosives
• Vietnamese: mìn — class of explosives
• Vietnamese: đinamit — class of explosives
• Welsh: deinameit — class of explosives
• Yiddish: דיינאַמייט (deynameyt) — class of explosives
• Polish: laska dynamitu — stick of trinitrotoluene
• Portuguese: banana de dinamite — stick of trinitrotoluene
• Swedish: dynamitpatron — stick of trinitrotoluene
• Swedish: dynamitgubbe — stick of trinitrotoluene
• German: Sprengstoff — figuratively
• Asturian: dinamitar — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Catalan: dinamitar — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Danish: demolere — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Dutch: dynamiteren — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Finnish: räjäyttää dynamiitilla — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• French: dynamiter — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Galician: dinamitar — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Ido: dinamitagar — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Irish: réab le dinimít — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Māori: tainamaiti — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Marshallese: abba — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Marshallese: bo̧kutan̄ — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Portuguese: dinamitar — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive
• Spanish: dinamitar — to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive