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charbon

English

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Etymology

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From French charbon (“coal; anthrax”).

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Noun

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charbon (countable and uncountable, plural charbons)

  1. (countable) A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.
  2. (uncountable) A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle; anthrax.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “charbon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French charbon, inherited from Latin carbōnem (“coal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ker (“to burn”). Doublet of carbone.

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Noun

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charbon m (plural charbons)

  1. coal
  2. anthrax
  3. smut (range of fungi that cause crop disease); fungus of the genus Ustilago

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Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin carbō, carbōnem (“coal”).

Noun

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charbon oblique singular, m (oblique plural charbons, nominative singular charbons, nominative plural charbon)

  1. coal

Descendants

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  • French: charbon
  • Norman: tchèrbon, tcherbaon
  • Walloon: tcherbon

Scottish Gaelic

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Noun

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charbon

  1. Lenited form of carbon.

Welsh

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Noun

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charbon

  1. Aspirate mutation of carbon.

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
carbon garbon ngharbon charbon
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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