lignite

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• /ˈlɪɡnaɪ̯t/
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• lĭgnīt
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From French lignite, from Latin lignum (“firewood”) + -ite.

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bruinkool — coal
• Afrikaans: ligniet — coal
• Albanian: linjiti — coal
• Arabic: فحم بني (faḥm bunniyy) — coal
• Armenian: լիգնիտ (lignit) — coal
• Armenian: գորշ ածուխ (gorš acux) — coal
• Asturian: lignitu — coal
• Basque: lignito — coal
• Basque: ikatz arrea — coal
• Belarusian: бу́ры ву́галь (búry vúhalʹ) — coal
• Belarusian: лігніт (lihnit) — coal
• Bengali: লিগনাইট (ligonaiṭ) — coal
• Bulgarian: лигнит (lignit) — coal
• Burmese: ကျောက်မီးသွေးနု (kyaukmi:swe:nu.) — coal
• Catalan: lignit — coal
• Chinese Cantonese: 褐煤 (hot3 mui4) — coal
• Chinese Mandarin: 褐煤 — coal
• Czech: hnědé uhlí — coal
• Czech: lignit — coal
• Danish: brunkul — coal
• Dutch: bruinkool — coal
• Esperanto: lignito — coal
• Estonian: pruunsüsi — coal
• Finnish: ruskohiili — coal
• French: lignite — coal
• Galician: lignito — coal
• Georgian: მურა ნახშირი (mura naxširi) — coal
• German: Braunkohle — coal
• Greek: λιγνίτης (lignítis) — coal
• Hebrew: ליגניט (lignit) — coal
• Hindi: लिग्नाइट (lignāiṭ) — coal
• Hungarian: barnaszén — coal
• Hungarian: lignit — coal
• Icelandic: surtarbrandur — coal
• Icelandic: brúnkol — coal
• Ido: lignito — coal
• Indonesian: lignit — coal
• Irish: gual donn — coal
• Italian: lignite — coal
• Japanese: 褐炭 (kattan) — coal
• Japanese: 亜炭 (atan) — coal
• Kazakh: лигнит (lignit) — coal
• Korean: 갈탄 (galtan) — coal
• Korean: 아탄 (atan) — coal
• Kyrgyz: күрөң көмүр (küröŋ kömür) — coal
• Latin: lignitus — coal
• Latvian: lignīts — coal
• Latvian: brūnogles — coal
• Lithuanian: lignitas — coal
• Lithuanian: rusvoji anglis — coal
• Macedonian: ли́гнит (lígnit) — coal
• Malagasy: linita — coal
• Mongolian: хүрэн нүүрс (xüren nüürs) — coal
• Navajo: łeejin — coal
• Norwegian Bokmål: brunkull — coal
• Norwegian Bokmål: brunkol — coal
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brunkol — coal
• Persian: زغال قهوهای (zoġâl qahve-'i) — coal
• Polish: węgiel brunatny — coal
• Portuguese: linhite — coal
• Portuguese: lignite — coal
• Portuguese: lignito — coal
• Portuguese: linhito — coal
• Romanian: lignit — coal
• Romanian: cărbune brun — coal
• Russian: бу́рый у́голь (búryj úgolʹ) — coal
• Russian: лигни́т (lignít) — coal
• Serbo-Croatian: лѝгнӣт — coal
• Serbo-Croatian: lìgnīt — coal
• Slovak: hnedé uhlie — coal
• Slovak: lignit — coal
• Slovene: lignit — coal
• Slovene: rjavi premog — coal
• Lower Sorbian: brunica — coal
• Lower Sorbian: bruny wugel — coal
• Upper Sorbian: brunica — coal
• Upper Sorbian: brune wuhlo — coal
• Spanish: lignito — coal
• Swedish: brunkol — coal
• Swedish: lignit — coal
• Telugu: లిగ్నైట్ (lignaiṭ) — coal
• Thai: ลิกไนต์ (lík-nai) — coal
• Turkish: linyit — coal
• Ukrainian: бу́ре вугі́лля (búre vuhíllja) — coal
• Ukrainian: лігні́т (lihnít) — coal
• Uzbek: лигнит (lignit) — coal
• Uzbek: lignit — coal
• Vietnamese: than nâu — coal