kerosene

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• /ˈkɛɹəsiːn/
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From Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós, “wax”) + -ene; a name trademarked in 1854. An older term for kerosene was carbon oil.

110 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: vajgur — thin, colorless fuel
• Arabic: كِيرُوسِين (kīrūsīn) — thin, colorless fuel
• Arabic: جاز (gāz) — thin, colorless fuel
• Armenian: կերոսին (kerosin) — thin, colorless fuel
• Assamese: কেৰাচিন (kerasin) — thin, colorless fuel
• Azerbaijani: kerosin — thin, colorless fuel
• Azerbaijani: ağ neft — thin, colorless fuel
• Azerbaijani: lampa nefti — thin, colorless fuel
• Azerbaijani: ağ nöyüd — thin, colorless fuel
• Basque: keroseno — thin, colorless fuel
• Belarusian: га́за (háza) — thin, colorless fuel
• Belarusian: керасі́н (kjerasín) — thin, colorless fuel
• Bulgarian: кероси́н (kerosín) — thin, colorless fuel
• Burmese: ရေနံဆီ (renamhci) — thin, colorless fuel
• Catalan: querosè — thin, colorless fuel
• Chamicuro: kerosina — thin, colorless fuel
• Chinese Cantonese: 火水 (fo2 seoi2) — thin, colorless fuel
• Chinese Mandarin: 煤油 (méiyóu) — thin, colorless fuel
• Chinese Mandarin: 火油 (huǒyóu) — thin, colorless fuel
• Chinese Mandarin: 燈油 /灯油 (dēngyóu) — thin, colorless fuel
• Czech: petrolej — thin, colorless fuel
• Danish: petroleum — thin, colorless fuel
• Dhivehi: ކަރާސީނު (karāsīnu) — thin, colorless fuel
• Dutch: kerosine — thin, colorless fuel
• Esperanto: keroseno — thin, colorless fuel
• Esperanto: petrolo — thin, colorless fuel
• Estonian: petrooleum — thin, colorless fuel
• Estonian: lambiõli — thin, colorless fuel
• Finnish: petroli — thin, colorless fuel
• Finnish: kerosiini — thin, colorless fuel
• French: kérosène — thin, colorless fuel
• Galician: queroseno — thin, colorless fuel
• Georgian: კეროსინი (ḳerosini) — thin, colorless fuel
• Georgian: ნავთი (navti) — thin, colorless fuel
• German: Petroleum — thin, colorless fuel
• German: Kerosin — thin, colorless fuel
• Greek: κηροζίνη (kirozíni) — thin, colorless fuel
• Gujarati: ઘાસલેટ (ghāsleṭ) — thin, colorless fuel
• Hebrew: קֵרוֹסִין (kerosin) — thin, colorless fuel
• Hindi: मिट्टी का तेल (miṭṭī kā tel) — thin, colorless fuel
• Hindi: केरोसीन (kerosīn) — thin, colorless fuel
• Hungarian: kerozin — thin, colorless fuel
• Hunsrik: Kërosen — thin, colorless fuel
• Icelandic: kerósín — thin, colorless fuel
• Indonesian: kerosin — thin, colorless fuel
• Irish: ceirisín — thin, colorless fuel
• Italian: cherosene — thin, colorless fuel
• Japanese: 灯油 (tōyu) — thin, colorless fuel
• Japanese: ケロシン (keroshin) — thin, colorless fuel
• Kalmyk: намк (namk) — thin, colorless fuel
• Kazakh: керосин (kerosin) — thin, colorless fuel
• Khmer: កាត (kaat) — thin, colorless fuel
• Korean: 등유 (deung'yu) — thin, colorless fuel
• Korean: 케로신 (kerosin) — thin, colorless fuel
• Kumyk: нап (nap) — thin, colorless fuel
• Kyrgyz: керосин (kerosin) — thin, colorless fuel
• Lao: ກ້າດ (kāt) — thin, colorless fuel
• Latvian: petroleja — thin, colorless fuel
• Lithuanian: žibalas — thin, colorless fuel
• Malay: minyak tanah — thin, colorless fuel
• Malayalam: മണ്ണെണ്ണ (maṇṇeṇṇa) — thin, colorless fuel
• Māori: karahīni — thin, colorless fuel
• Marathi: केरोसीन (kerosīn) — thin, colorless fuel
• Mongolian: керосин (kerosin) — thin, colorless fuel
• Navajo: akʼahkǫʼ — thin, colorless fuel
• Norwegian Bokmål: parafin — thin, colorless fuel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: parafin — thin, colorless fuel
• Persian: نفت سفید (naft-e sefid) — thin, colorless fuel
• Persian: نفت (naft) — thin, colorless fuel
• Persian: نفت چراغ (naft-e čerâġ) — thin, colorless fuel
• Persian: کروسن (kerosen) — thin, colorless fuel
• Polish: nafta — thin, colorless fuel
• Portuguese: querosene — thin, colorless fuel
• Punjabi: ਮਿੱਟੀ ਦਾ ਤੇਲ (miṭṭī dā tel) — thin, colorless fuel
• Quechua: kirusini — thin, colorless fuel
• Romanian: petrol lampant — thin, colorless fuel
• Romanian: kerosen — thin, colorless fuel
• Russian: кероси́н (kerosín) — thin, colorless fuel
• Serbo-Croatian: керозин — thin, colorless fuel
• Serbo-Croatian: kerozin — thin, colorless fuel
• Slovak: petrolej — thin, colorless fuel
• Slovene: petrolej — thin, colorless fuel
• Spanish: queroseno — thin, colorless fuel
• Spanish: canfín — thin, colorless fuel
• Spanish: keroseno — thin, colorless fuel
• Spanish: kerosene — thin, colorless fuel
• Spanish: kerosén — thin, colorless fuel
• Spanish: kerosín — thin, colorless fuel
• Spanish: kerex — thin, colorless fuel
• Spanish: kerosina — thin, colorless fuel
• Swahili: kerosini — thin, colorless fuel
• Swedish: fotogen — thin, colorless fuel
• Tagalog: gaas — thin, colorless fuel
• Tagalog: kerosina — thin, colorless fuel
• Tajik: керосин (kerosin) — thin, colorless fuel
• Tamil: மண்ணெண்ணெய் (maṇṇeṇṇey) — thin, colorless fuel
• Thai: น้ํามันก๊าด (nám-man-gáat) — thin, colorless fuel
• Thai: ก๊าด (gáat) — thin, colorless fuel
• Turkish: kerosen — thin, colorless fuel
• Turkmen: kerosin — thin, colorless fuel
• Ukrainian: гас (has) — thin, colorless fuel
• Ukrainian: кероси́н (kerosýn) — thin, colorless fuel
• Unami: kolay — thin, colorless fuel
• Uzbek: kerosin — thin, colorless fuel
• Vietnamese: dầu hỏa — thin, colorless fuel
• Vietnamese: dầu lửa — thin, colorless fuel
• Vietnamese: kêrôsin — thin, colorless fuel
• Yoruba: barafín — thin, colorless fuel
• Yoruba: kẹrosíìnì — thin, colorless fuel
• Zulu: uphalafini — thin, colorless fuel