"lahar" meaning in English

See lahar in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈlɑhɑɹ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lahar.wav Forms: lahars [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar). Introduced as geological term by Berend George Escher in 1922. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|jv|ꦭꦲꦂ}} Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar) Head templates: {{en-noun}} lahar (plural lahars)
  1. (geology) A volcanic mudflow. Categories (topical): Geology Related terms: pyroclast Translations (volcanic mudflow): লহর (Bishnupriya Manipuri), 火山泥流 (huǒshān níliú) (Chinese Mandarin), lahar (Danish), lahar [masculine] (Dutch), lahari (Finnish), vulkaaninen mutavyöry (Finnish), lahar [masculine] (French), Lahar [masculine] (German), lahar (Indonesian), lahar [masculine] (Italian), ラハール (rahāru) (Japanese), ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar) (Javanese), lahar (Malay), lahar [masculine] (Polish), lahar [masculine] (Portuguese), лаха́р (laxár) [masculine] (Russian), lahár [masculine] (Slovak), lahar [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "jv",
        "3": "ꦭꦲꦂ"
      },
      "expansion": "Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar). Introduced as geological term by Berend George Escher in 1922.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lahars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lahar (plural lahars)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Bishnupriya Manipuri terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Javanese terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 10 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bishnupriya Manipuri translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Danish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Javanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Malay translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Geology",
          "orig": "en:Geology",
          "parents": [
            "Earth sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 11 12 0 2 11 14 11 14 10 1 2 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 10 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 11 12 0 2 11 14 11 14 10 1 2 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, Jocelyn Thornton, Field Guide to New Zealand Geology, page 204:",
          "text": "Such a highly destructive mud-flow (termed a lahar) eventually stops as a pile of debris of all shapes and sizes, as mixed up as a glacial moraine; the two deposits have often been confused.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff, Alexander R. McBirney, Volcanology, page 138:",
          "text": "Pyroclastic flows are often difficult to distinguish in outcrops from a similar type of fragmental debris flow known as lahars. Both are characteristically unstratified and unsorted. A deposit containing blocks of varied compositions with rounded shapes is more likely to have been formed by a lahar than by a glowing avalanche.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Andrew J. L. Harris et al., “Downstream aggradation owing to lava dome extrusion and rainfall runoff at Volcán Santiaguito, Guatemala”, in William Ingersoll Rose, editor, Volcanic Hazards in Central America, page 86:",
          "text": "A regime of persistent lahar activity results when eruptive activity continually supplies unconsolidated volcanic material for remobilization.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A volcanic mudflow."
      ],
      "id": "en-lahar-en-noun-M1GX0YUC",
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ],
        [
          "volcanic",
          "volcanic"
        ],
        [
          "mudflow",
          "mudflow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) A volcanic mudflow."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "pyroclast"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bpy",
          "lang": "Bishnupriya Manipuri",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "word": "লহর"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "huǒshān níliú",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "word": "火山泥流"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "word": "lahar"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lahar"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "word": "lahari"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "word": "vulkaaninen mutavyöry"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lahar"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Lahar"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "word": "lahar"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lahar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "rahāru",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "word": "ラハール"
        },
        {
          "code": "jv",
          "lang": "Javanese",
          "roman": "lahar",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "word": "ꦭꦲꦂ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "word": "lahar"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lahar"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lahar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "laxár",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "лаха́р"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lahár"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lahar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɑhɑɹ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lahar.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/05/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lahar.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lahar.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/05/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lahar.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lahar.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lahar"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 10 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rizal Tagalog"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "jv",
        "3": "ꦭꦲꦂ"
      },
      "expansion": "Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar). Introduced as geological term by Berend George Escher in 1922.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lahars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lahar (plural lahars)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pyroclast"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Bishnupriya Manipuri terms with redundant script codes",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Javanese",
        "English terms derived from Javanese",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Javanese terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 10 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Bishnupriya Manipuri translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Javanese translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "en:Geology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, Jocelyn Thornton, Field Guide to New Zealand Geology, page 204:",
          "text": "Such a highly destructive mud-flow (termed a lahar) eventually stops as a pile of debris of all shapes and sizes, as mixed up as a glacial moraine; the two deposits have often been confused.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff, Alexander R. McBirney, Volcanology, page 138:",
          "text": "Pyroclastic flows are often difficult to distinguish in outcrops from a similar type of fragmental debris flow known as lahars. Both are characteristically unstratified and unsorted. A deposit containing blocks of varied compositions with rounded shapes is more likely to have been formed by a lahar than by a glowing avalanche.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Andrew J. L. Harris et al., “Downstream aggradation owing to lava dome extrusion and rainfall runoff at Volcán Santiaguito, Guatemala”, in William Ingersoll Rose, editor, Volcanic Hazards in Central America, page 86:",
          "text": "A regime of persistent lahar activity results when eruptive activity continually supplies unconsolidated volcanic material for remobilization.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A volcanic mudflow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ],
        [
          "volcanic",
          "volcanic"
        ],
        [
          "mudflow",
          "mudflow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) A volcanic mudflow."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɑhɑɹ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lahar.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/05/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lahar.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lahar.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/05/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lahar.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lahar.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bpy",
      "lang": "Bishnupriya Manipuri",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "word": "লহর"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huǒshān níliú",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "word": "火山泥流"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "word": "lahar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lahar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "word": "lahari"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "word": "vulkaaninen mutavyöry"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lahar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Lahar"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "word": "lahar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lahar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rahāru",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "word": "ラハール"
    },
    {
      "code": "jv",
      "lang": "Javanese",
      "roman": "lahar",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "word": "ꦭꦲꦂ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "word": "lahar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lahar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lahar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "laxár",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "лаха́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lahár"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "volcanic mudflow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lahar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lahar"
}

Download raw JSONL data for lahar meaning in English (5.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.