Noun
pumice (countable and uncountable, plural pumices)
- A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.
1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, Oxford World's Classics 2002, page 10:The wind blew close to the ground - it rooted among the tussock grass - slithered along the road, so that the white pumice dust swirled in our faces - settled and sifted over us and was like a dry-skin itching for growth on our bodies.
Translations
pumice
- Arabic: خَفَاف m (ḵafāf)
- Armenian: պեմզա (hy) (pemza)
- Basque: pumita
- Belarusian: пе́мза f (pjémza)
- Bengali: ঝামা পাথর (jhama pathor)
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: пе́мза f (pémza)
- Catalan: pumicita f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 浮石 (zh) (fúshí), 浮岩 (zh) (fúyán)
- Czech: pemza (cs) f
- Danish: pimpsten (da)
- Dutch: puimsteen (nl)
- Esperanto: pumiko
- Estonian: pimss
- Finnish: hohkakivi (fi)
- French: ponce (fr) f, pierre ponce (fr) f
- Old French: pomis m, ponce m
- Friulian: pomighe f
- Galician: pedra pómez (gl) f
- Georgian: პემზა (ṗemza)
- German: Bims (de) m
- Greek: ελαφρόπετρα (el) f (elafrópetra)
- Ancient: κίσηρις f (kísēris)
- Hebrew: פומיס
- Hindi: झाँवाँ (hi) m (jhā̃vā̃)
- Hungarian: habkő (hu), horzsakő (hu), tajtékkő (hu)
- Icelandic: vikur (is)
- Ido: pumiko (io)
- Indonesian: batu apung (id)
- Irish: slíogart m
- Italian: pomice (it)
- Japanese: 軽石 (ja) (かるいし, karuishi)
- Kazakh: пемза (pemza)
- Korean: 경석 (gyeongseok)
- Kyrgyz: пемза (pemza)
- Latin: pūmex m
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: pemza f
- Maori: pungapunga, tāhoata
- Norman: pièrre dé ponce f (Jersey)
- Norwegian: pimpstein
- Occitan: pomce m
- Odia: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: سنگ پا (fa) (sang-e pâ)
- Polish: pumeks (pl) m
- Portuguese: pedra-pomes (pt) f, púmice (pt) m
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: piatră ponce (ro) f
- Russian: пе́мза (ru) f (pémza)
- Sami:
- Northern: dikŋa
- Kildin: тыӈӈ (tyŋŋ) (obsolete or dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пловућац m
- Roman: plovučac
- Sicilian: petra pùmici f
- Slovak: pemza (sk) f
- Spanish: pumita (es) f, piedra pómez (es) f, pómez (es) f, jal m (Mexico)
- Swedish: pimpsten (sv)
- Tagalog: batong-buga, buga
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: ponza (tr)
- Ukrainian: пе́мза f (pémza)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: pemza (uz)
- Vietnamese: đá bọt
- Welsh: pwmis m
- Yiddish: פּימס m (pims)
|