obsidian

See also: Obsidian and obsidián

English

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obsidian

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin obsidianus; named after Obsidius, who was, according to Pliny, the Roman who discovered the stone in Aethiopia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɒbˈsɪd.i.ən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, also) IPA^(key): /əbˈsɪd.i.ən/
• Rhymes: -ɪdiən

Noun

obsidian (usually uncountable, plural obsidians)

1. (mineralogy) A type of naturally occurring black glass produced by volcanoes.

   Synonym: obby

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:

     The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.

2. A slightly bluish black, the color of obsidian glass.

   obsidian:  

Hyponyms

• fire obsidian
• rainbow obsidian
• sheen obsidian
• snowflake obsidian

Translations

a type of black glass produced by volcanoes

Afrikaans: lawaglas Arabic: سَبَج m (sabaj) Armenian: վանակատ (vanakat) Bulgarian: обсидиан m (obsidian) Catalan: obsidiana (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 黑曜岩 (zh) (hēiyàoyán), 黑曜石 (zh) (Hēiyàoshí) Czech: obsidián m Danish: obsidian c or n Dutch: lavaglas, obsidiaan (nl) Egyptian: (kf m) Esperanto: obsidiano Finnish: obsidiaani, laavalasi French: obsidienne (fr) f Georgian: ობსიდიანი (ka) (obsidiani) German: Obsidian (de) m, Glasachat m Greek: οψιδιανός (el) m (opsidianós) Hawaiian: mākā Hindi: ज्वालाकाच (jvālākāc) Hungarian: obszidián (hu) Icelandic: hrafntinna (is) f Ido: obsidiano (io) Indonesian: obsidian (id), batu kendan, batu kaca (literally “glass stone”) Italian: ossidiana (it) f Japanese: 黒曜石 (ja) (kokuyōseki) Korean: 흑요석 (heugyoseok) Maori: tūhua, matā, matā tūhua Nahuatl: itztli (nah), citlālcuitlatl Nandi: sengwet Navajo: noolyínii Polish: obsydian (pl) m Portuguese: obsidiana (pt) f Romanian: obsidian (ro) n Russian: обсидиа́н (ru) m (obsidián) Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: opsidijan (sh) m Seri: pajii Slovak: obsidián (sk) m Spanish: obsidiana (es) f Swedish: obsidian (sv) c Tagalog: obsidiyana Turkish: obsidyen (tr), obsidiyen (tr) Vietnamese: đá vỏ chai Yiddish: אָבסידיאַן m (obsidyan)

Adjective

obsidian (comparative more obsidian, superlative most obsidian)

1. (poetic) Black.
   • 1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits:

     Looks like a yellow biscuit of a buttery cue ball moon / Rolling maverick across an obsidian sky

Translations

poetic: black

Dutch: obsidiaan (nl) Latvian: obsidiāns m Spanish: obsidiano m

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Translations to be checked

Japanese: (please verify) 黒曜石 (ja) (こくようせき, kokuyōseki) Korean: (please verify) 흑요석 (heugyoseok)

Anagrams

• anobiids

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌbsidiˈæˀn/

Noun

obsidian c or n (singular definite obsidianen or obsidianet, not used in plural form)

1. obsidian

Further reading

• “obsidian” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “obsidian” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

obsidian

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch obsidiaan, from Latin obsidianus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔp.si.ˈdi.an/
• Rhymes: -an, -n
• Hyphenation: ob‧si‧di‧an

Noun

obsidian (plural obsidian-obsidian)

1. (geology) obsidian

Further reading

• “obsidian” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French obsidiane, from Latin obsidiana.

Noun

obsidian n (plural obsidiane)

1. obsidian

Declension

Declension of obsidian

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	obsidian	obsidianul		obsidiane	obsidianele
genitive-dative	obsidian	obsidianului		obsidiane	obsidianelor
vocative	obsidianule			obsidianelor

Further reading

• obsidian in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Noun

obsidian c

1. obsidian

Declension

Declension of obsidian

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	obsidian	obsidians
	definite	obsidianen	obsidianens
plural	indefinite	obsidianer	obsidianers
	definite	obsidianerna	obsidianernas