flint

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• /flɪnt/
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• homophone: Flynt
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• homophone: flint
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• rhymes with -ɪnt
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From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.

156 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ukrainian: Флíнт (Flínt) — town in Flintshire, Wales
• Welsh: Y Fflint — town in Flintshire, Wales
• Arabic: صَوَّان (ṣawwān) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Arabic: ظُرَر (ẓurar) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Arabic: قَدَّاح (qaddāḥ) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Armenian: կայծքար (kayckʻar) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Azerbaijani: çaxmaq daşı — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Bashkir: саҡматаш (saqmataş) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Basque: sukarri — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Belarusian: крэ́мень (krémjenʹ) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Bulgarian: кре́мък (krémǎk) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Catalan: sílex — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Chinese Mandarin: 燧石 (suìshí) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Czech: pazourek — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Danish: ildsten — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Danish: flint — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Dutch: vuursteen — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Dutch: keisteen — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Esperanto: siliko — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Esperanto: fajroŝtono — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Faroese: tinna — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Finnish: piikivi — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• French: silex — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Galician: sílex — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Georgian: კაჟი (ḳaži) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• German: Feuerstein — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• German: Flintstein — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• German: Flint — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• German: Silex — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Cappadocian Greek: κασκάρα (kaskára) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Gujarati: ચકમક (cakmak) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Haitian Creole: pyè — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Hebrew: צור (tsór) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Hindi: चक़मक़ (caqmaq) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Hindi: चकमक (cakmak) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Hungarian: kovakő — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Hungarian: flint — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Icelandic: tinna — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Ingrian: piikivi — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Italian: selce — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Japanese: 燧石 — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Kazakh: шақпақ (şaqpaq) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Korean: 부싯돌 (busitdol) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Korean: 수석 (suseok) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Central Kurdish: بەردەستێ (berdestê) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Central Kurdish: کوچکاوْر (kuçkawir) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Northern Kurdish: berheste — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Latgalian: kroms — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Latin: silex — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Latvian: krams — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Lithuanian: titnagas — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Macedonian: кремен (kremen) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Macedonian: белутрак (belutrak) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Māori: paea — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Maranao: batolakit — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Moksha: толгев (tolgev) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Nahuatl: tecpatl — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Navajo: béésh — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Navajo: tséʼáwózí — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Nepali: चकमक (cakamak) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Newar: च्वल्वहं (cwalwahaṃ) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Norman: pièrre à feu — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Norwegian: flint — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Occitan: pèira de fòc — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Occitan: silèx — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Occitan: pèira frejal — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Occitan: pèira selze — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Church Slavic: кремꙑ (kremy) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Old English: flint — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Old Norse: tinna — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Oneida: kánhyaʼ — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Ossetian: ӕхсон (æxson) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Pacoh: preal — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Pashto: چقمک — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Pawnee: tahuuruʼ — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Persian: چخماق (čaxmâq) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Persian: آتشزنه (ātašzane) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Hazaragi: چَقْمَق (čaqmaq) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Plautdietsch: Fiasteen — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Polish: krzemień — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Polish: krzemyk — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Portuguese: sílex — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Portuguese: pederneira — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Romanian: silex — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Romanian: cremene — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Russian: креме́нь (kreménʹ) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Saanich: qentoles — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Serbo-Croatian: кре̏ме̄н — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Serbo-Croatian: krȅmēn — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Slovak: silicit — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Slovak: rohovec — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Slovak: pazúrik — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Slovak: flint — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Slovak: buližník — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Slovene: kremen — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Lower Sorbian: kśemjeń — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Upper Sorbian: křemjeń — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Spanish: pedernal — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Spanish: sílex — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Spanish: moleña — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Swedish: flinta — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Tagalog: panting — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Tarifit: taẓrut — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Telugu: కిమిడి (kimiḍi) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Thai: หินเหล็กไฟ (hǐn-lèk-fai) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Thai: หินไฟ (hǐn-fai) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Thai: ฟลินต์ — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Tonkawa: yapaxkan — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Turkish: çakmak taşı — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Ottoman Turkish: چاقماق طاشی (çakmak taşı) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Udmurt: тылӥз (tyliz) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Ukrainian: кре́мінь (kréminʹ) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Vietnamese: đá lửa — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Volapük: flintoin — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Welsh: callestr — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Welsh: fflint — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Yiddish: פֿײַערשטיינ (fayershteyn) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Yiddish: קיזלשטיינ (kizlshteyn) — hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
• Arabic: صَوَّانَة (ṣawwāna) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Arabic: ظِرّ (ẓirr) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Arabic: ظُرَرَة (ẓurara) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Arabic: قَدَّاحَة (qaddāḥa) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Armenian: կայծքար (kayckʻar) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Bashkir: саҡматаш (saqmataş) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Catalan: pedrenyal — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Catalan: pedrenyera — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Catalan: pedra foguera — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Czech: pazourek — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Danish: flint — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Dutch: vuursteen — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Esperanto: fajroŝtono — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• French: pierre à fusil — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Galician: pederneira — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• German: Feuerstein — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• German: Zündstein — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Haitian Creole: pyè — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Macedonian: кремен (kremen) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Macedonian: белутрак (belutrak) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Norman: pièrre à feu — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Pawnee: tahuuruʼ — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Polish: krzesiwo — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Portuguese: pederneira — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Russian: огни́во (ognívo) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Spanish: pedernal — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Ottoman Turkish: چاقماق طاشی (çakmak taşı) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Ukrainian: креса́ло (kresálo) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Ukrainian: огни́во (ohnývo) — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Volapük: flintoin güna — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Welsh: callestr — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Welsh: fflint — piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker
• Bulgarian: камъче (kamǎče) — small cylinder
• Danish: flint — small cylinder
• Finnish: kivi — small cylinder
• French: pierre à briquet — small cylinder
• Spanish: pedernal — small cylinder
• Spanish: piedra — small cylinder