asbest

From Latin asbestos, from Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos).

asbest m (plural asbests or asbestos)

1. asbestos

   Synonym: amiant

• “asbest” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “asbest”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “asbest” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “asbest” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos, “unquenchable, inextinguishable”).

asbest c (definite singular asbesten)

1. asbestos

• “asbest” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch asbeston, from Latin asbestos, from Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.bɛst/

• asbest

  (file)

• Hyphenation: as‧best

asbest n (uncountable)

1. asbestos

• → Indonesian: asbès
• → Papiamentu: asbèst

from Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos, “unquenchable, inextinguishable”),

asbest (genitive asbesti, partitive asbesti)

1. (mineralogy) asbestos

From Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos, “unquenchable, inextinguishable”).

asbest n (genitive singular asbests, no plural)

1. (mineralogy) asbestos

• “asbest” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

From Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos, “unquenchable, inextinguishable”).

asbest m (definite singular asbesten)

1. asbestos

• “asbest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos).

asbest m (definite singular asbesten)

1. asbestos

• “asbest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

asbest n (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of azbest

asbest c

1. (mineralogy) asbestos

From Ottoman Turkish آسبست‎ (asbest), from French asbeste, from Latin asbestos, from Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos).

• IPA^(key): /as.best/

asbest (definite accusative asbesti, plural asbestler)

1. asbestos