"basalt" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbæs.ɒlt/ [UK], /ˈbæs.əlt/ [UK], /ˈbæs.ɔːlt/ [UK], /bəˈsɔlt/ [General-American], /ˈbæs.ɔlt/ [General-American], /ˈbeɪˌsɔlt/ [General-American], /bəˈsɑlt/ [cot-caught-merger], /ˈbæs.ɑlt/ [cot-caught-merger], /ˈbeɪˌsɑlt/ [cot-caught-merger], /ˈbæs.ɒlt/ [Canada], /ˈbæs.ɑlt/ [Canada] Audio: en-uk-basalt.ogg [UK], en-us-basalt.ogg [US] Forms: basalts [plural]
Rhymes: -æsɒlt Etymology: From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”), b-x:n-O39 Etymology templates: {{der|en|LL.|basaltes}} Late Latin basaltes, {{der|en|la|basanites}} Latin basanites, {{der|en|grc|βασανίτης}} Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), {{m|grc|βάσανος|t=touchstone}} βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), {{der|en|egy|bḫn|t=a hard stone}} Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} basalt (countable and uncountable, plural basalts)
  1. (mineralogy) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Minerals, Rocks Translations (hard rock): bazalt [masculine] (Albanian), بَازَلْت (bāzalt) [masculine] (Arabic), basalto [masculine] (Aragonese), բազալտ (bazalt) (Armenian), basaltu [masculine] (Asturian), bazalt (Azerbaijani), basalto (Basque), база́льт (bazálʹt) [masculine] (Belarusian), база́лт (bazált) [masculine] (Bulgarian), basalt [masculine] (Catalan), 玄武岩 (hiân-bú-giâm) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 玄武岩 (xuánwǔyán) (Chinese Mandarin), čedič [masculine] (Czech), basalt [common-gender] (Danish), basalt [neuter] (Dutch), bazalto (Esperanto), basalt (Estonian), basalt [neuter] (Faroese), blágrýti [neuter] (Faroese), basaltti (Finnish), basalte (French), basalto (Galician), ბაზალტი (bazalṭi) (Georgian), Basalt [masculine] (German), βασάλτης (vasáltis) [masculine] (Greek), agiamineq (Greenlandic), agiaq (Greenlandic), basalti (Greenlandic), בַּזֶּלֶת (bazélet) [masculine] (Hebrew), बेसाल्ट (besālṭ) (Hindi), bazalt (Hungarian), basalt (Icelandic), blágrýti [neuter] (Icelandic), bazalto (Ido), basalt (Indonesian), basalt [masculine] (Irish), basalto (Italian), 玄武岩 (genbugan) (alt: げんぶがん) (Japanese), базальт (bazalt) (Kazakh), ភូរាល (phuuriəl) (Khmer), បាសាល (baasaal) (Khmer), ថ្មបាសាល (thmɑɑbaasaal) (Khmer), 현무암 (hyeonmuam) (alt: 玄武巖) (Korean), базальт (bazalt) (Kyrgyz), bazalts [masculine] (Latvian), bazaltas [masculine] (Lithuanian), basalt (Low German), базалт (bazalt) [masculine] (Macedonian), basalt (Malay), karā (Maori), pakawera (Maori), बसाल्ट खडक (basālṭa khaḍak) (Marathi), basalt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), basalt [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), بازالت (bâzâlt) (Persian), bazalt [masculine] (Polish), basalto [masculine] (Portuguese), basaltu (Quechua), bazalt [neuter] (Romanian), база́льт (bazálʹt) [masculine] (Russian), bazalts (Samogitian), basalt (Scottish Gaelic), ба̀залт [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), bàzalt [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), bazalt [masculine] (Slovak), čadič [masculine] (Slovak), bazalt [masculine] (Slovene), basalto [masculine] (Spanish), basalt (Sundanese), basalt [common-gender] (Swedish), basalto (Tagalog), batumbakal (Tagalog), базалт (bazalt) (Tajik), หินบะซอลต์ (bà-sɔ́l) (Thai), บะซอลต์ (bà-sɔ́l) (Thai), bazalt (Turkish), база́льт (bazálʹt) [masculine] (Ukrainian), bazalt (Uzbek), ba-zan (Vietnamese), ba-dan (Vietnamese), basalt (Welsh), באַזאַלט (bazalt) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-basalt-en-noun-7hsRf1tN Disambiguation of Rocks: 91 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 98 2 Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'hard rock': 97 3
  2. A type of unglazed pottery. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-basalt-en-noun-NfYh3ZV5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: molten rock Hyponyms: flood basalt Derived forms: alkali basalt, basaltic, basaltiform, basaltoid, basaltware, metabasalt, nonbasalt, picrobasalt, plateau basalt, trachybasalt

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          "roman": "phuuriəl",
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          "alt": "玄武巖",
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          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "hyeonmuam",
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          "roman": "basālṭa khaḍak",
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          "word": "बसाल्ट खडक"
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          ],
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        },
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
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          "sense": "hard rock",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
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          "sense": "hard rock",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "hard rock",
          "word": "ba-zan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
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          "sense": "hard rock",
          "word": "ba-dan"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
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          "word": "basalt"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
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            "masculine"
          ],
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        }
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      "ipa": "/ˈbeɪˌsɔlt/",
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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
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    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "English terms derived from Egyptian",
    "English terms derived from Late Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Rhymes:English/æsɒlt",
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      "word": "alkali basalt"
    },
    {
      "word": "basaltic"
    },
    {
      "word": "basaltiform"
    },
    {
      "word": "basaltoid"
    },
    {
      "word": "basaltware"
    },
    {
      "word": "metabasalt"
    },
    {
      "word": "nonbasalt"
    },
    {
      "word": "picrobasalt"
    },
    {
      "word": "plateau basalt"
    },
    {
      "word": "trachybasalt"
    }
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      "name": "der"
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "basanites"
      },
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        "2": "grc",
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      },
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      "name": "der"
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      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
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        "t": "touchstone"
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      "expansion": "βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "egy",
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        "t": "a hard stone"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    }
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      ]
    }
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      "word": "molten rock"
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      "word": "flood basalt"
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        "uncountable"
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        "geography",
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        "mineralogy",
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        "physical-sciences"
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      ],
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          "pottery"
        ]
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        "uncountable"
      ]
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        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbæs.əlt/",
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        "UK"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈbeɪˌsɔlt/",
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    {
      "ipa": "/bəˈsɑlt/",
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    {
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        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bazalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "bāzalt",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "بَازَلْت"
    },
    {
      "code": "an",
      "lang": "Aragonese",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "basalto"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "bazalt",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "բազալտ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "basaltu"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "bazalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalto"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "bazálʹt",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "база́льт"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bazált",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "база́лт"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "hiân-bú-giâm",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "玄武岩"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xuánwǔyán",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "玄武岩"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "čedič"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "bazalto"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blágrýti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basaltti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalte"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "bazalṭi",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "ბაზალტი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "vasáltis",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "βασάλτης"
    },
    {
      "code": "kl",
      "lang": "Greenlandic",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "agiamineq"
    },
    {
      "code": "kl",
      "lang": "Greenlandic",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "agiaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "kl",
      "lang": "Greenlandic",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalti"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "bazélet",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "בַּזֶּלֶת"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "besālṭ",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "बेसाल्ट"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "bazalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "blágrýti"
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    {
      "code": "io",
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      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "bazalto"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalto"
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    {
      "alt": "げんぶがん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "genbugan",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "玄武岩"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "bazalt",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "базальт"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "phuuriəl",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "ភូរាល"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "baasaal",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "បាសាល"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "thmɑɑbaasaal",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "ថ្មបាសាល"
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    {
      "alt": "玄武巖",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hyeonmuam",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "현무암"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "bazalt",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "базальт"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bazalts"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bazaltas"
    },
    {
      "code": "nds",
      "lang": "Low German",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "bazalt",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "базалт"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "karā"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "pakawera"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "basālṭa khaḍak",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "बसाल्ट खडक"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bâzâlt",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "بازالت"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bazalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "basalto"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basaltu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bazalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bazálʹt",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "база́льт"
    },
    {
      "code": "sgs",
      "lang": "Samogitian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "bazalts"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ба̀залт"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bàzalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bazalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "čadič"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bazalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "basalto"
    },
    {
      "code": "su",
      "lang": "Sundanese",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalto"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "batumbakal"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "bazalt",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "базалт"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bà-sɔ́l",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "หินบะซอลต์"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bà-sɔ́l",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "บะซอลต์"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "bazalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bazálʹt",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "база́льт"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "bazalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "ba-zan"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "ba-dan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "word": "basalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "bazalt",
      "sense": "hard rock",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "באַזאַלט"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "basalt"
  ],
  "word": "basalt"
}

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