gunpowder

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌnˌpaʊdə/
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• General-American: /ˈɡʌnˌpaʊdɚ/
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• Northern-England: /ˈɡʊnˌpaʊdə/
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• Scotland: /ˈɡʌnˌpʌʊdəɾ/
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• CMU ARPABET: G AH1 N P AW2 D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gwhen- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gwhéntis Proto-Germanic *gunþiz Old Norse gunnr Proto-Indo-European *kelh2-der. Proto-Indo-European *kelh2tís Proto-Germanic *hildiz Old Norse hildr Old Norse Gunnhildrder. Middle English gunne English gun English powder English gunpowder From gun + powder.

Possibly due to its smell resembling gunpowder during the British Raj.

144 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: buskruit — explosive mixture
• Albanian: barut — explosive mixture
• Southern Altai: таары (taarï) — explosive mixture
• Arabic: بَارُود (bārūd) — explosive mixture
• Aragonese: polvora — explosive mixture
• Aramaic: ܒܐܪܘܕ (bārūḏ) — explosive mixture
• Armenian: վառոդ (vaṙod) — explosive mixture
• Armenian: բարութ (barutʻ) — explosive mixture
• Assamese: বাৰুদ (barud) — explosive mixture
• Azerbaijani: barıt — explosive mixture
• Bashkir: дары (darı) — explosive mixture
• Belarusian: по́рах (pórax) — explosive mixture
• Bengali: বারুদ (barud) — explosive mixture
• Central Bikol: ubat — explosive mixture
• Bulgarian: бару́т (barút) — explosive mixture
• Burmese: ယမ်းမှုန့် (yam:hmun.) — explosive mixture
• Burmese: ယမ်း (yam:) — explosive mixture
• Buryat: дари (dari) — explosive mixture
• Catalan: pólvora — explosive mixture
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏪᎳᎩᏍᎩ (adawelagisgi) — explosive mixture
• Chinese Cantonese: 火藥 /火药 (fo2 joek6) — explosive mixture
• Chinese Mandarin: 火藥 /火药 (huǒyào) — explosive mixture
• Chinese Mandarin: 黑火藥 /黑火药 (hēihuǒyào) — explosive mixture
• Ngazidja Comorian: baruti — explosive mixture
• Czech: střelný prach — explosive mixture
• Danish: krudt — explosive mixture
• Daur: ort — explosive mixture
• Dongxiang: hoye — explosive mixture
• Dutch: buskruit — explosive mixture
• East Yugur: daari — explosive mixture
• Erzya: толбочт (tolbočt) — explosive mixture
• Esperanto: nigra pulvo — explosive mixture
• Esperanto: pulvo — explosive mixture
• Estonian: püssirohi — explosive mixture
• Finnish: ruuti — explosive mixture
• French: poudre à canon — explosive mixture
• French: poudre — explosive mixture
• Galician: pólvora — explosive mixture
• Georgian: დენთი (denti) — explosive mixture
• Georgian: წამალი (c̣amali) — explosive mixture
• German: Schießpulver — explosive mixture
• German: Schwarzpulver — explosive mixture
• Greek: μπαρούτι (baroúti) — explosive mixture
• Greek: πυρίτιδα (pyrítida) — explosive mixture
• Hebrew: אֲבַק שְׂרֵפָה — explosive mixture
• Hebrew: בָּרוּד (barúd) — explosive mixture
• Hindi: बारूद (bārūd) — explosive mixture
• Hindi: बारूत (bārūt) — explosive mixture
• Hungarian: lőpor — explosive mixture
• Hungarian: puskapor — explosive mixture
• Icelandic: byssupúður — explosive mixture
• Indonesian: bubuk mesiu — explosive mixture
• Ingrian: ruuti — explosive mixture
• Interlingua: pulvere — explosive mixture
• Irish: púdar gunna — explosive mixture
• Italian: polvere da sparo — explosive mixture
• Italian: polvere pirica — explosive mixture
• Japanese: 火薬 (kayaku) — explosive mixture
• Kalmyk: дәр (där) — explosive mixture
• Kapampangan: ubat — explosive mixture
• Kazakh: оқ-дәрі (oq-därı) — explosive mixture
• Khmer: រំសេវ (rumseew) — explosive mixture
• Korean: 화약 (hwayak) — explosive mixture
• Central Kurdish: باڕووت (barrût) — explosive mixture
• Northern Kurdish: barût — explosive mixture
• Northern Kurdish: barûd — explosive mixture
• Kyrgyz: порох (poroh) — explosive mixture
• Kyrgyz: дары (darı) — explosive mixture
• Lao: ຫມຶ້ (mư) — explosive mixture
• Lao: ຫມື້ (mư̄) — explosive mixture
• Lao: ດິນປືນ (din pư̄n) — explosive mixture
• Latin: pulvis pyrius — explosive mixture
• Latin: pulvis bombardicus — explosive mixture
• Latvian: šaujampulveris — explosive mixture
• Lithuanian: parakas — explosive mixture
• Macedonian: барут (barut) — explosive mixture
• Malay: masiu — explosive mixture
• Malay: mensiu — explosive mixture
• Malayalam: വെടിമരുന്ന് (veṭimarunnŭ) — explosive mixture
• Manchu: ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto) — explosive mixture
• Manx: poodyr çhentagh — explosive mixture
• Manx: poodyr — explosive mixture
• Māori: paura — explosive mixture
• Mongghul: pau sman — explosive mixture
• Mongolian: дарь (darʹ) — explosive mixture
• Navajo: beeʼeldǫǫh bikǫʼ — explosive mixture
• Nepali: बारूद (bārūd) — explosive mixture
• Nheengatu: mukawakuí — explosive mixture
• Nivkh: меутю оӽт (meuțu oẋt) — explosive mixture
• Norman: poudre à canon — explosive mixture
• Norwegian Bokmål: krutt — explosive mixture
• Norwegian Nynorsk: krut — explosive mixture
• Old Tupi: pokaku'i — explosive mixture
• Pashto: باروت (bārut) — explosive mixture
• Pashto: دارو (dāru) — explosive mixture
• Iranian Persian: باروت (bârut) — explosive mixture
• Iranian Persian: بارود (bârud) — explosive mixture
• Plautdietsch: Scheetpulwa — explosive mixture
• Polish: proch — explosive mixture
• Portuguese: pólvora — explosive mixture
• Punjabi: ਬਾਰੂਦ (bārūd) — explosive mixture
• Punjabi: ਬਰੂਦ (barūd) — explosive mixture
• Punjabi: بارُود (bārūd) — explosive mixture
• Romanian: praf de pușcă — explosive mixture
• Russian: по́рох (pórox) — explosive mixture
• Russian: чёрный по́рох (čórnyj pórox) — explosive mixture
• Scottish Gaelic: fùdar-gunna — explosive mixture
• Scottish Gaelic: fùdar — explosive mixture
• Serbo-Croatian: ба́рут — explosive mixture
• Serbo-Croatian: bárut — explosive mixture
• Shan: ယၢမ်း (yáam) — explosive mixture
• Shor: тар (tar) — explosive mixture
• Sicilian: prùvula — explosive mixture
• Slovak: strelný prach — explosive mixture
• Slovene: smodnik — explosive mixture
• Spanish: pólvora — explosive mixture
• Spanish: polvorín — explosive mixture
• Swahili: baruti — explosive mixture
• Swedish: krut — explosive mixture
• Tagalog: malilang — explosive mixture
• Tagalog: pulbura — explosive mixture
• Tajik: борут (borut) — explosive mixture
• Tatar: дары (darı) — explosive mixture
• Telugu: పేలుడు మందు (pēluḍu mandu) — explosive mixture
• Thai: ดินปืน (din-bpʉʉn) — explosive mixture
• Tibetan: མེ་རྫས (me rdzas) — explosive mixture
• Tlingit: at tugáni — explosive mixture
• Turkish: barut — explosive mixture
• Ottoman Turkish: باروت (barut) — explosive mixture
• Turkmen: däri — explosive mixture
• Tuvan: дары (darı) — explosive mixture
• Ukrainian: по́рох (pórox) — explosive mixture
• Urdu: بارُود (bārūd) — explosive mixture
• Urdu: بارُوت (bārūt) — explosive mixture
• Uyghur: مىلتىق دورىسى (miltiq dorisi) — explosive mixture
• Uyghur: پوروخ (porox) — explosive mixture
• Uzbek: porox — explosive mixture
• Uzbek: miltiqdori — explosive mixture
• Vietnamese: thuốc súng — explosive mixture
• Vilamovian: śispuwer — explosive mixture
• Welsh: powdwr gwn — explosive mixture
• Welsh: fflamlwch — explosive mixture
• Yakut: буорах (buoraq) — explosive mixture
• Yiddish: שיספּולווער (shispulver) — explosive mixture