geyser

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• General-South-African, UK: /ˈɡiː.zə/
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• US: /ˈɡaɪ.zɚ/
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• US: /ˈɡaɪ.sɚ/
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• rhymes with -aɪzə(ɹ)
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• rhymes with -iːzə(ɹ)
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• homophone: guiser
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• homophone: geezer
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• CMU ARPABET: G AY1 Z ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵhew-der.? Proto-Germanic *geusaną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *gausijaną Old Norse geysa Icelandic geysa Icelandic Geysirbor. English geyser From Icelandic Geysir (“Gusher”), the Icelandic name of a particular hot spring in Iceland (see Wikipedia), from the verb geysa (“to gush”), from Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), which is mentioned as early as the 1760s in The Annual Register, as “Geyser, a wonderful spring in the valley of Haukadal”. Doublet of gusher

73 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: سَخَّان (saḵḵān) — boiling spring
• Armenian: գեյզեր (geyzer) — boiling spring
• Basque: geiser — boiling spring
• Bulgarian: гейзер (gejzer) — boiling spring
• Catalan: guèiser — boiling spring
• Chinese Mandarin: 間歇泉 /间歇泉 (jiànxiēquán) — boiling spring
• Czech: gejzír — boiling spring
• Danish: gejser — boiling spring
• Dutch: geiser — boiling spring
• Esperanto: gejsero — boiling spring
• Estonian: geiser — boiling spring
• Faroese: gaysari — boiling spring
• Finnish: geysir — boiling spring
• French: geyser — boiling spring
• Georgian: გეიზერი (geizeri) — boiling spring
• German: Geysir — boiling spring
• Greek: θερμοπίδακας (thermopídakas) — boiling spring
• Hebrew: גייזר — boiling spring
• Hindi: उष्णोत्स (uṣṇots) — boiling spring
• Hungarian: gejzír — boiling spring
• Icelandic: goshver — boiling spring
• Ido: geyser — boiling spring
• Indonesian: geyser — boiling spring
• Indonesian: geiser — boiling spring
• Irish: géasar — boiling spring
• Italian: geyser — boiling spring
• Japanese: 間欠泉 (kanketsusen) — boiling spring
• Kazakh: гейзер (geizer) — boiling spring
• Korean: 간헐천 (ganheolcheon) — boiling spring
• Latvian: geizers — boiling spring
• Lithuanian: geizeris — boiling spring
• Malay: geiser — boiling spring
• Māori: waiariki — boiling spring
• Māori: ngāwhā — boiling spring
• Māori: puia — boiling spring
• Māori: ngāwhāriki — boiling spring
• Māori: pōhutu — boiling spring
• Norwegian Bokmål: geysir — boiling spring
• Norwegian Bokmål: springkilde — boiling spring
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gøyskjelde — boiling spring
• Norwegian Nynorsk: geysir — boiling spring
• Norwegian Nynorsk: springkjelde — boiling spring
• Occitan: gueisèr — boiling spring
• Polish: gejzer — boiling spring
• Portuguese: géiser — boiling spring
• Portuguese: gêiser — boiling spring
• Romanian: gheizer — boiling spring
• Russian: ге́йзер (géjzer) — boiling spring
• Serbo-Croatian: гејзир — boiling spring
• Slovak: gejzír — boiling spring
• Slovene: gejzir — boiling spring
• Spanish: géiser — boiling spring
• Spanish: geyser — boiling spring
• Spanish: géyser — boiling spring
• Swahili: gaiza — boiling spring
• Swedish: gejser — boiling spring
• Thai: ไกเซอร์ (gaisêr) — boiling spring
• Turkish: kaynaç — boiling spring
• Turkish: gayzer — boiling spring
• Ukrainian: ге́йзер (héjzer) — boiling spring
• Vietnamese: mạch nước phun — boiling spring
• Volapük: gäysär — boiling spring
• Welsh: giser — boiling spring
• Bulgarian: проточен бойлер (protočen bojler) — archaic: hot water heater — see also hot water heater
• Dutch: geiser — archaic: hot water heater — see also hot water heater
• Dutch: geizer — archaic: hot water heater — see also hot water heater
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vasshetar — archaic: hot water heater — see also hot water heater
• Bengali: গিজার (gijar) — domestic water boiler
• Georgian: წყალგამათბობელი (c̣q̇algamatbobeli) — domestic water boiler
• Georgian: ბოილერი (boileri) — domestic water boiler
• Russian: водонагрева́тель (vodonagrevátelʹ) — domestic water boiler
• Russian: бо́йлер (bójler) — domestic water boiler
• Urdu: گِیزَر (gīzar) — domestic water boiler