bauxite

See also: Bauxite

English

Etymology

Derived from the name of Les Baux in France, plus +‎ -ite. The /ks/ in the English pronunciation is from a spelling pronunciation.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːksaɪt/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

bauxite (countable and uncountable, plural bauxites)

The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides.
- 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 152:
  A thin red stream poured down one of the rises, snaking its way around trees; a river turned red with bauxite?

Derived terms

Translations

ore

Armenian: բոքսիտ (hy) (bokʻsit)
Bulgarian: боксит (boksit)
Catalan: bauxita f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鋁土礦／铝土矿 (zh) (lǚtǔkuàng)
Czech: bauxit m
Danish: bauxit (da) c
Dutch: bauxiet (nl) n
Esperanto: baŭksito
Estonian: boksiit
Finnish: bauksiitti (fi)
French: bauxite (fr) f
German: Bauxit (de) m
Greek: βωξίτης (el) m (voxítis)
Hungarian: bauxit (hu)
Italian: bauxite (it) f
Japanese: 鉄礬土 (ja) (てつばんど, tetsubando), ボーキサイト (ja) (bōkisaito)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: boksitas
Macedonian: бокси́т m (boksít)
Malay: bauksit (ms)
Malayalam: ബോക്സൈറ്റ് (ml) (bōksaiṟṟŭ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bauksitt m, bauxitt m

Nynorsk: bauksitt m, bauxitt m
Polish: boksyt (pl) m
Portuguese: bauxita (pt) f (Brazil), bauxite f (Portugal)
Russian: бокси́т (ru) m (boksít)
Serbo-Croatian: boksit (sh) m
Spanish: bauxita (es) f
Swedish: bauxit (sv) c
Tagalog: bawhita
Thai: บ็อกไซต์ (bòksai)

French

Etymology

From Les Baux in France.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

bauxite f (uncountable)

bauxite

Further reading

“bauxite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

bauxite f (plural bauxiti)

(mineralogy) bauxite

Derived terms

bauxitico

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /bawˈʃi.t͡ʃi/ [baʊ̯ˈʃi.t͡ʃi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /bawˈʃi.te/ [baʊ̯ˈʃi.te]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /bawˈʃi.tɨ/

Hyphenation: bau‧xi‧te

Noun

bauxite f (plural bauxites)

European Portuguese standard spelling of bauxita.

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