Chalk

//t͡ʃɔːk//

Synonyms for "chalk" (236 found)

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279 translations across 125 languages.

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Afrikaans

2 entries
  • kryt noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kryt noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Albanian

2 entries
  • shkumës noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • shkumës noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • γύψος noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Arabic

2 entries
  • طَبْشُورَة noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • طَبْشُورَة noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Armenian

2 entries
  • կավիճ noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • կավիճ noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Asturian

4 entries
  • tiz noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • tiza noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • xiz noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • xiz noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Azerbaijani

3 entries
  • tabaşir noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • təbaşir noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • təbaşir noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Bashkir

4 entries
  • аҡбур noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • аҡбур noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • бур noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • бур noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Basque

3 entries
  • klariona noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • klera noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • klera noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Belarusian

4 entries
  • крэ́йда noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • крэ́йда noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • мел noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • мел noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Bengali

3 entries
  • চক noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • সফেদ noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • সফেদা noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Breton

2 entries
  • kleiz noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kleiz noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • кре́да noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • кре́да noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • тебеши́р noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Burmese

1 entries
  • မြေဖြူခဲ noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Catalan

3 entries
  • creta noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • guix noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • magnèsia noun (white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics)

Central Kurdish

3 entries
  • تەباشیر noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • گەچ noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • گەچ noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 白堊 /白垩 noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • 粉筆 /粉笔 noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Chuvash

1 entries
  • пурӑ noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Cornish

1 entries
  • krey noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries
  • bor noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Czech

2 entries
  • křída noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • křída noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Danish

2 entries
  • kridt noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kridt noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Dari

2 entries
  • گَچ noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • گَچ noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Dutch

4 entries
  • kalk noun (white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics)
  • krijt noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • krijt noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • krijtgesteente noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Eastern Mari

2 entries
  • пор noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • пор noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Erzya

1 entries
  • пор noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • kreto noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kreto noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Estonian

2 entries
  • kriit noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kriit noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Faroese

2 entries
  • krit noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • krit noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Finnish

4 entries
  • liitu noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • liitu noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • liitu noun (white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics)
  • liitukivi noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

French

3 entries
  • craie noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • craie noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • magnésie noun (white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics)

Friulian

1 entries
  • ges noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Galician

2 entries
  • xiz noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • xiz noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Georgian

2 entries
  • ცარცი noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • ცარცი noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

German

3 entries
  • Kreide noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • Kreide noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • Magnesiapulver noun (white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics)

Greek

3 entries
  • κιμωλία noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • κιμωλία noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • τεμπεσίρι noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Greenlandic

1 entries
  • allaat noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • גִּיר noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Hindi

4 entries
  • खड़िया noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • खड़िया noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • चाक noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • चाक noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • kréta noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kréta noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Iban

1 entries
  • chok noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Icelandic

3 entries
  • krít noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • krítarsteinn noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • magnesíum noun (white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics)

Indonesian

3 entries
  • kapur noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kapur noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • kapur tulis noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Ingrian

1 entries
  • mela noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Iranian Persian

2 entries
  • گَچ noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • گَچ noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Irish

2 entries
  • cailc noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • cailc noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Italian

3 entries
  • creta noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • gessetto noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • gesso noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Japanese

3 entries
  • チョーク noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • 白亜 noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • 白墨 noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Kalmyk

2 entries
  • церд noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • церд noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Kamba

1 entries
  • chokaa noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Karelian

1 entries
  • miela noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Kashubian

2 entries
  • kreda noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kreda noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Kazakh

2 entries
  • бор noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • бор noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Khmer

2 entries
  • ដីស noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • ដីស noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Kikuyu

1 entries
  • shokaa noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Komi-Zyrian

2 entries
  • мел noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • мел noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Korean

2 entries
  • 백악 noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • 분필 noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Kyrgyz

2 entries
  • бор noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • бор noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Lao

2 entries
  • ປູນ noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • ສໍຂາວ noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Latin

1 entries
  • crēta noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Latvian

2 entries
  • krīts noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • krīts noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Ligurian

1 entries
  • tæra róssa noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Lithuanian

2 entries
  • kreida noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kreida noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Lombard

1 entries
  • creia noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Lower Sorbian

2 entries
  • krida noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • krida noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Luhya

1 entries
  • echokaa noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Luxembourgish

2 entries
  • Kräid noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • Kräid noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Macedonian

3 entries
  • вар noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • креда noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • креда noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Malay

3 entries
  • kapur noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kapur noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • kapur tulis noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Malayalam

1 entries
  • ചോക്ക് noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Manx

1 entries
  • kelk noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Marathi

1 entries
  • खडू noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Meru

2 entries
  • choka noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • ckoka noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Moksha

1 entries
  • пур noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Mongolian

2 entries
  • цэрд noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • шохой noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Māori

1 entries
  • tioka noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Navajo

2 entries
  • bee naʼadzooí noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • dleesh noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Neapolitan

1 entries
  • creta noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Nepali

3 entries
  • खरीमट्टी noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • चक noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • चूना noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Norman

2 entries
  • craie noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • craie noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • kritt noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kritt noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries
  • krit noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • krit noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Occitan

2 entries
  • greda noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • greda noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Old English

1 entries
  • ċealc noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Oromo

1 entries
  • boronqii noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • تباشیر noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries
  • крейда noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Pashto

2 entries
  • تباشير noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • تباشير noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Piedmontese

1 entries
  • creja noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • Kjried noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Polish

3 entries
  • kreda noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kreda noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • magnezja noun (white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • gesso noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • giz noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Romanian

2 entries
  • cretă noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • cretă noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Russian

3 entries
  • мел noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • мел noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • мело́к noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries
  • cailc noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • cailc noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • kréda noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kréda noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • vápno noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • ва́пно noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Siberian Tatar

2 entries
  • упта noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • упта noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Slovak

2 entries
  • krieda noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • krieda noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Slovene

2 entries
  • kreda noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • kreda noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Southern Altai

2 entries
  • обо noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • обо noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Spanish

4 entries
  • clarión noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • creta noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • gis noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • magnesio noun (white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics)

Swahili

2 entries
  • chaki noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • chaki noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Swedish

2 entries
  • krita noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • krita noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Tagalog

4 entries
  • tisa noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • tisa noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • yeso noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • yeso noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Tajik

4 entries
  • бӯр noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • бӯр noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • гач noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • гач noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Tatar

4 entries
  • акбур noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • бур noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • оба noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • оба noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Telugu

2 entries
  • సుద్ద noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • సుద్దముక్క noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Thai

2 entries
  • ชอล์ก noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • หินดินสอพอง noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Turkish

3 entries
  • magnezyum noun (white powdery substance used for grip in climbing, weight-lifting and gymnastics)
  • tebeşir noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • tebeşir noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Turkmen

2 entries
  • hek noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • mel noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Udi

3 entries
  • кӏавучӏ noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • мацӏикӏул noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • мацӏикӏул noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Udmurt

2 entries
  • бур noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • бур noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • кре́йда noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • кре́йда noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Urdu

4 entries
  • چاک noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • چاک noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • چُونا noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • کَھڑِیا noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Uyghur

2 entries
  • بور noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • بور noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Uzbek

2 entries
  • boʻr noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • boʻr noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Vietnamese

4 entries
  • phấn noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • phấn noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • phấn viết noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
  • phấn viết bảng noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Vilamovian

2 entries
  • krajd noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • krajd noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Votic

1 entries
  • melto noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Võro

1 entries
  • kriit' noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

Welsh

2 entries
  • sialc noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • sialc noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Western Mari

2 entries
  • пор noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • пор noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Yakut

1 entries
  • миэл noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Yiddish

2 entries
  • קרײַד noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • קרײַד noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Yoruba

2 entries
  • ṣọ́ọ̀kì noun (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
  • ṣọ́ọ̀kì noun (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

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He took out a piece of chalk.

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Please bring me two pieces of chalk.

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Give me three pieces of chalk.

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Give me a piece of chalk.

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