kiln

English

Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia: historic tobacco kiln

Etymology

From Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline (“large oven”), from Latin culina (“kitchen, kitchen stove”), introduced by the Romans to England in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɪl
IPA: /kɪɫn/, /kɪɫ/, X-SAMPA: /ki5n/, /ki5/
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Rhymes: -ɪln

Noun

kiln (plural kilns)

An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or smelting ores.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion^[1]:
  One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

Translations

oven, furnace or heated chamber

Albanian: furrë (sq) f
Arabic: فرن (ar) (farn) m
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 窯 (cmn), 窑 (cmn) (yáo)
Czech: vypalovací pec (cs) f
Dutch: oven (nl) m, drooghut (nl) f, droogkamer (nl) f
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: uuni (fi) (oven or furnace); riihi (fi) (grain drying cabin); kuivaamo (fi), kuivuri (fi) (drying facility)
French: four (fr) m
German: Brennofen (de) m
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hindi: भट्टा (hi) (bhaṭṭā)
Hungarian: égetőkemence (hu)
Irish: áith (ga) f

Italian: fornace (it) f
Japanese: 窯 (ja) (かま, kama), 炉 (ja) (ろ, ro)
Korean: 가마 (ko) (gama)
Latin: fornāx (la) f
Manx: aiee (gv)
Marathi: bhatti (mr) (bhatti) f
Russian: сушильная печь (ru) (pečʹ) f (sušílʹnaâ pečʹ), печь для обжига и сушки (pečʹ dlja óbžiga i súški)
Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
Scottish Gaelic: àth (gd) f
Spanish: horno (es) m
Swedish: kölna (sv) c, torkugn (sv) c, torkhus (sv) n
Thai: เตาเผา (th) (dtao păo)
Turkish: kireç ocağı (tr)
Vietnamese: lò (vi)
Welsh: odyn (cy) f