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.
• “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

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• Hyphenation: as‧best

asbest n (uncountable)

1. asbestos

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

asbest (genitive asbesti, partitive asbesti)

1. (mineralogy) asbestos

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 c

1. (mineralogy) asbestos