"naphtha" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈnæfθə/, /ˈnæpθə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-naphtha.wav Forms: naphthas [plural]
Etymology: From Latin naphtha, from Ancient Greek νάφθα (náphtha, “naphtha”), from Old Persian *naftah, probably borrowed or assimilated from Akkadian 𒉌𒆳𒊏 (napṭu, “naphtha”) . The Greek mediation is reflected in the spelling – ‘ph’ and ‘th’ (from ‘φ’ and ‘θ’). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|naphtha}} Latin naphtha, {{der|en|grc|νάφθα|t=naphtha}} Ancient Greek νάφθα (náphtha, “naphtha”), {{der|en|peo|*naftah}} Old Persian *naftah, {{der|en|akk|napṭum|𒉌𒆳𒊏|t=naphtha|tr=napṭu}} Akkadian 𒉌𒆳𒊏 (napṭu, “naphtha”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} naphtha (countable and uncountable, plural naphthas)
  1. (dated) Naturally occurring liquid petroleum. Tags: countable, dated, uncountable Translations (naturally occurring liquid petroleum): νάφθα (náphtha) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), نَفْط (nafṭ) [masculine] (Arabic), ropa [feminine] (Czech), nafta [feminine] (Czech), nafta (Finnish), naphte [masculine] (French), Naphtha [feminine, neuter] (German), νάφθα (náftha) [feminine] (Greek), נֵפְט (neft) [masculine] (Hebrew), nafta [feminine] (Italian), ナフサ (nafusa) (Japanese), naphtha [feminine] (Latin), նաւթ (nawtʻ) (Old Armenian), نفت (naft) (Persian), nafta [feminine] (Portuguese), нефть (neftʹ) [feminine] (Russian), на́фта (náfta) [feminine] (Russian), на̏фта [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nȁfta [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), на́фта (náfta) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-naphtha-en-noun-IWdml7iW Disambiguation of 'naturally occurring liquid petroleum': 86 14
  2. (petrochemistry) Any of a wide variety of aliphatic or aromatic liquid hydrocarbon mixtures distilled from petroleum or coal tar, especially as used in solvents or petrol. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Petrochemistry, Petroleum
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: napalm, naphtha lamp, naphthalene, naphthalenide, naphthalide, naphthalimide, naphthene, naphthenic Translations (liquid distilled from petroleum): 石腦油 /石脑油 (sek⁶ nou⁵ jau⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 石腦油 /石脑油 (shínǎoyóu) (Chinese Mandarin), öljyjae (Finnish), jae (Finnish), naphte [masculine] (French), Naphtha [feminine, neuter] (German), nafta [masculine] (Irish), nafta [feminine] (Italian), ナフサ (nafusa) (Japanese), 나프타 (napeuta) (Korean), nafta [feminine] (Portuguese), лигрои́н (ligroín) [masculine] (Russian), на́фта (náfta) [feminine] (Russian), на̏фта [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nȁfta [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), neft (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'liquid distilled from petroleum': 49 51

Inflected forms

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        "feminine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Naphtha"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nafta"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nafta"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nafusa",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "word": "ナフサ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "napeuta",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "word": "나프타"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nafta"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ligroín",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "лигрои́н"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "náfta",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "на́фта"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "на̏фта"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nȁfta"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "word": "neft"
    }
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    "naphtha"
  ],
  "word": "naphtha"
}
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    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Cantonese translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Old Armenian translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
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    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
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    {
      "word": "napalm"
    },
    {
      "word": "naphtha lamp"
    },
    {
      "word": "naphthalene"
    },
    {
      "word": "naphthalenide"
    },
    {
      "word": "naphthalide"
    },
    {
      "word": "naphthalimide"
    },
    {
      "word": "naphthene"
    },
    {
      "word": "naphthenic"
    }
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            "1": "ja",
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            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "nafusa"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese: ナフサ (nafusa)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Japanese: ナフサ (nafusa)"
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      "text": "→ Korean: 나프타 (napeuta)"
    }
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      },
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        "Naturally occurring liquid petroleum."
      ],
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          "petroleum",
          "petroleum"
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        "(dated) Naturally occurring liquid petroleum."
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          "ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.",
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          "ref": "1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:",
          "text": "No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into — they go in under archways, secret entrances of rotted concrete that only looked like loops of an underpass... certain trestles of blackened wood have moved slowly by overhead, and the smells begun of coal from days far to the past, smells of naphtha winters, of Sundays when no traffic came through...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Philip Pullman, Northern Lights:",
          "text": "The Common Room and the Library were lit by anbaric light, but the Scholars preferred the older, softer naphtha lamps in the Retiring Room.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Any of a wide variety of aliphatic or aromatic liquid hydrocarbon mixtures distilled from petroleum or coal tar, especially as used in solvents or petrol."
      ],
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        [
          "petrochemistry",
          "petrochemistry"
        ],
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          "aliphatic"
        ],
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          "aromatic",
          "aromatic"
        ],
        [
          "hydrocarbon",
          "hydrocarbon"
        ],
        [
          "petroleum",
          "petroleum"
        ],
        [
          "coal tar",
          "coal tar"
        ],
        [
          "solvent",
          "solvent"
        ],
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          "petrol"
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        "(petrochemistry) Any of a wide variety of aliphatic or aromatic liquid hydrocarbon mixtures distilled from petroleum or coal tar, especially as used in solvents or petrol."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
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        "chemistry",
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "petrochemistry",
        "petrology",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnæfθə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnæpθə/"
    },
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nafṭ",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "نَفْط"
    },
    {
      "code": "xcl",
      "lang": "Old Armenian",
      "roman": "nawtʻ",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "word": "նաւթ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ropa"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "nafta"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "word": "nafta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "naphte"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Naphtha"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "náftha",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "νάφθα"
    },
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      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "náphtha",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "νάφθα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "neft",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "נֵפְט"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nafta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nafusa",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "word": "ナフサ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "naphtha"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "naft",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "word": "نفت"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nafta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neftʹ",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "нефть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "náfta",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "на́фта"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "на̏фта"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nȁfta"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "náfta",
      "sense": "naturally occurring liquid petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "на́фта"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "sek⁶ nou⁵ jau⁴",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "word": "石腦油 /石脑油"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shínǎoyóu",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "word": "石腦油 /石脑油"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "word": "öljyjae"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "word": "jae"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "naphte"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Naphtha"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nafta"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nafta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nafusa",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "word": "ナフサ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "napeuta",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "word": "나프타"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nafta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ligroín",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "лигрои́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "náfta",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "на́фта"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "на̏фта"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nȁfta"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "liquid distilled from petroleum",
      "word": "neft"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "naphtha"
  ],
  "word": "naphtha"
}

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