The young Russian geologist hammered off a piece of the stone and minutely examined it. "Basalt!" he cried rapturously, passing a fragment of the rock to his German colleague.
Source: tatoeba (2885255)
Basalt
//bəˈsɔlt//
Synonyms for "basalt" (43 found)
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Related words (21)
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83 translations across 70 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- bazalt noun (hard rock)
Arabic
1 entries- بَازَلْت noun (hard rock)
Aragonese
1 entries- basalto noun (hard rock)
Armenian
1 entries- բազալտ noun (hard rock)
Asturian
1 entries- basaltu noun (hard rock)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- bazalt noun (hard rock)
Basque
1 entries- basalto noun (hard rock)
Belarusian
1 entries- база́льт noun (hard rock)
Bulgarian
1 entries- база́лт noun (hard rock)
Catalan
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Chinese
1 entries- 玄武岩 noun (hard rock)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 玄武岩 noun (hard rock)
Czech
1 entries- čedič noun (hard rock)
Danish
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Dutch
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Esperanto
1 entries- bazalto noun (hard rock)
Estonian
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Faroese
2 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
- blágrýti noun (hard rock)
Finnish
1 entries- basaltti noun (hard rock)
French
1 entries- basalte noun (hard rock)
Galician
1 entries- basalto noun (hard rock)
Georgian
1 entries- ბაზალტი noun (hard rock)
German
1 entries- Basalt noun (hard rock)
Greek
1 entries- βασάλτης noun (hard rock)
Greenlandic
3 entries- agiamineq noun (hard rock)
- agiaq noun (hard rock)
- basalti noun (hard rock)
Hebrew
1 entries- בַּזֶּלֶת noun (hard rock)
Hindi
1 entries- बेसाल्ट noun (hard rock)
Hungarian
1 entries- bazalt noun (hard rock)
Icelandic
2 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
- blágrýti noun (hard rock)
Ido
1 entries- bazalto noun (hard rock)
Indonesian
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Irish
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Italian
1 entries- basalto noun (hard rock)
Japanese
1 entries- 玄武岩 noun (hard rock)
Kazakh
1 entries- базальт noun (hard rock)
Khmer
3 entries- ថ្មបាសាល noun (hard rock)
- បាសាល noun (hard rock)
- ភូរាល noun (hard rock)
Korean
1 entries- 현무암 noun (hard rock)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- базальт noun (hard rock)
Latvian
1 entries- bazalts noun (hard rock)
Lithuanian
1 entries- bazaltas noun (hard rock)
Low German
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Macedonian
1 entries- базалт noun (hard rock)
Malay
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Marathi
1 entries- बसाल्ट खडक noun (hard rock)
Māori
3 entries- karā noun (hard rock)
- pakawera noun (hard rock)
- ōnewa noun (hard rock)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Persian
1 entries- بازالت noun (hard rock)
Polish
1 entries- bazalt noun (hard rock)
Portuguese
1 entries- basalto noun (hard rock)
Quechua
1 entries- basaltu noun (hard rock)
Romanian
1 entries- bazalt noun (hard rock)
Russian
1 entries- база́льт noun (hard rock)
Samogitian
1 entries- bazalts noun (hard rock)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- bàzalt noun (hard rock)
- ба̀залт noun (hard rock)
Slovak
2 entries- bazalt noun (hard rock)
- čadič noun (hard rock)
Slovene
1 entries- bazalt noun (hard rock)
Spanish
1 entries- basalto noun (hard rock)
Sundanese
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Swedish
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Tagalog
2 entries- basalto noun (hard rock)
- batumbakal noun (hard rock)
Tajik
1 entries- базалт noun (hard rock)
Thai
2 entries- บะซอลต์ noun (hard rock)
- หินบะซอลต์ noun (hard rock)
Turkish
1 entries- bazalt noun (hard rock)
Ukrainian
1 entries- база́льт noun (hard rock)
Uzbek
1 entries- bazalt noun (hard rock)
Vietnamese
2 entries- ba-dan noun (hard rock)
- ba-zan noun (hard rock)
Welsh
1 entries- basalt noun (hard rock)
Yiddish
1 entries- באַזאַלט noun (hard rock)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Basalt is a type of rock that forms when lava solidifies.
Source: tatoeba (6542521)
Black sand comes from eroded volcanic material such as lava, basalt rocks, and other dark-colored rocks and minerals, and is typically found on beaches near volcanic activity.
Source: tatoeba (6673937)
He calls it clear evidence that water carried the salts up from basalt rock below ground and left them behind on the surface when it evaporated.
Source: tatoeba (10981234)
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