carbón

See also: carbon and càrbon

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin carbōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈbon/
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: car‧bón

Noun

carbón m

1. coal

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “carbón”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
• “carbón”, in Aragonario, diccionario aragonés–castellano (in Spanish)

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin carbō, carbōnem.

Noun

carbón m (uncountable)

1. coal (uncountable: carbon rock)
2. carbon

Galician

Alternative forms

• carvão, carvom (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese carvon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin carbō, carbōnem. Compare carbono. Cognate with Portuguese carvão and Spanish carbón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈboŋ/ [kɑɾˈβ̞oŋ]
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Hyphenation: car‧bón

Noun

carbón m (plural carbóns)

1. (countable or uncountable) coal

Derived terms

• Carboal
• carboeira
• Carboeiral
• carboeiro
• Carboeiro
• Carbón

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “carvon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “caruon” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “carbón”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carbón”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carbón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carbón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Irish

Etymology

From Latin carbō.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kəɾˠ(ə)ˈbˠoːn̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾˠ(ə)bˠoːnˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾˠ(ə)bˠɔnˠ/

Noun

carbón m (genitive singular carbóin, nominative plural carbóin)

1. carbon

Declension

Declension of carbón (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative carbón carbóin vocative a charbóin a charbóna genitive carbóin carbón dative carbón carbóin forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an carbón na carbóin genitive an charbóin na gcarbón dative leis an gcarbón don charbón leis na carbóin

Derived terms

• aonocsaíd charbóin
• cáin charbóin
• carbónach
• carbónaigh
• carbónáit
• carbónmhar
• carbóntréimhsiú
• carbónúil
• cóip charbóin
• cruach charbóin
• cúiteamh carbóin
• dátú carbóin
• dé-ocsaíd charbóin
• déshuilfíd charbóin
• dubh an charbóin
• dubh carbóin
• fosúchán carbóin
• lorg carbóin
• páipéar carbóin
• radacarbón
• réalta charbóin
• scuaibín charbóin
• teitreaclóiríd charbóin
• timthriall carbóin

Related terms

• carbóiniam
• carbóinil
• carbónú

Mutation

Mutated forms of carbón

radical	lenition	eclipsis
carbón	charbón	gcarbón

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “carbón”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “carbón”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “carbón”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin carbōnem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ker (“to burn”). Doublet of carbono.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈbon/ [kaɾˈβ̞õn]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: car‧bón

Noun

carbón m (plural carbones)

1. coal
2. charcoal

Derived terms

• carbón activado
• carbón vegetal
• carboncillo
• carbonizar
• papel carbón

Related terms

• carbonero
• carbono

Descendants

• → Cebuano: karbon
• → Tagalog: karbon

Further reading

• “carbón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• barcón, bronca, cabrón, cobran