Charcoal burning Artists' charcoal (charcoal sticks, used for drawing) A charcoal (charcoal drawing) of a young girl. The drawing has been charcoaled with a charcoal stick. Etymology
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From Middle English charcole , from charren ( “ to change, turn ” ) + cole ( “ coal ” ) , from Old English cierran ( “ to change, turn ” ) + col ( “ coal ” ) ; equivalent to char ( Etymology 3 (verb) ) + coal .
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charcoal (usually uncountable , plural charcoals )
( countable , uncountable ) impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen .
1837 , L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon ], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. [ … ] , volume II, London: Henry Colburn , [ … ] , →OCLC , pages 325–326 :The grate was laid with charcoal , to that she put a light, and then, as if she had forgotten something, hurried to the library, and carefully locked the door. First returning to see that the fire had kindled, she then went to the window, which, with the first gleam of moonlight, she cautiously unclosed, and stepped into the shrubbery.
2006 , Edwin Black , chapter 2, in Internal Combustion [1] :But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal .
( countable ) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
1879 , Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph , page 166 :He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
( countable ) A drawing made with charcoal.
A very dark gray colour .
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substance
Afrikaans: houtskool
Aguaruna: kayušik
Albanian: qymyr (sq)
Arabic: فَحْم الْخَشَب m ( faḥm al-ḵašab )
Armenian: փայտածուխ (hy) ( pʿaytacux )
Assamese: এঙাৰ ( eṅar )
Asturian: carbón vexetal
Avar: цӏцӏулал тӏуччи ( ccʼulal tʼučči )
Avestan: 𐬯𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀 ( skara )
Azerbaijani: odun kömürü
Bashkir: ағас күмере ( ağas kümere )
Basque: ikatz
Bavarian: hoizkuin
Belarusian: дрэ́ўны ву́галь m ( dréŭny vúhalʹ ) , ву́галь (be) m ( vúhalʹ )
Bikol Central: uring (bcl)
Breton: glaou koad
Bulgarian: дъ́рвен въ́глен m ( dǎ́rven vǎ́glen ) , въ́глен (bg) m ( vǎ́glen ) , дъ́рвени въ́глища n pl ( dǎ́rveni vǎ́glišta )
Burmese: မီးသွေး (my) ( mi:swe: )
Catalan: carbó vegetal
Central Franconian: holzkoll
Chinese:
Cantonese: 木炭 ( muk6 taan3 )
Mandarin: 木炭 (zh) ( mùtàn )
Cornish: glowbrenn
Czech: dřevěné uhlí (cs) n
Danish: trækul n , kul (da) n
Dupaningan Agta: uging
Dutch: houtskool (nl) m
Elfdalian: träkuol
Esperanto: lignokarbo
Estonian: puusüsi
Faroese: trækol n , viðarkol n
Finnish: puuhiili (fi) , sysi (fi)
French: charbon de bois (fr) m
Friulian: cjarbon m , cjarvon m , čharvon m
Galician: carbón (gl) m
Georgian: ხის ნახშირი ( xis naxširi )
German: Holzkohle (de) f
Greek: κάρβουνο (el) n ( kárvouno )
Ancient: ἄνθραξ m ( ánthrax )
Hawaiian: lānahu , nānahu
Hebrew: פֶּחָם עֵץ ( pecham 'etz )
Hindi: चारकोल ( cārkol ) , लकड़ी का कोयला ( lakṛī kā koylā ) , काठकोयला ( kāṭhkoylā )
Hungarian: faszén (hu)
Icelandic: viðarkol
Igbo: íchẹoku
Indonesian: arang (id)
Irish: fioghual m , gualach m
Isnag: uxing
Italian: carbone (it) m , carbonella (it) f
Japanese: 炭 (ja) ( すみ, sumi ) , 木炭 (ja) ( もくたん, mokutan )
Javanese: areng
Kamba: makaa
Kannada: ಇದ್ದಿಲು (kn) ( iddilu )
Kazakh: ағаш көмірі ( ağaş kömırı )
Khmer: ធ្យូង (km) ( thyuung )
Kikuyu: makara
Korean: 숯 (ko) ( sut ) , 목탄(木炭) (ko) ( moktan )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خەڵوز ( xelluz )
Northern Kurdish: komir (ku)
Kyrgyz: жыгач көмүрү ( jıgac kömürü ) , жыгачтын көмүрү ( jıgactın kömürü )
Lao: ຖ່ານ ( thān ) , ຖ່ານໄຟ (lo) ( thān fai )
Latin: carbō m
Latvian: ogles pl
Lave: houtskool
Limburgish: houtskaol (li)
Lithuanian: anglis (lt)
Low German:
German Low German: holtkuole
Luhya: likaa
Luo: makaa
Luxembourgish: holzkuel
Macedonian: јаглен m ( jaglen ) , ќумур m ( ḱumur )
Malagasy: àrina (mg)
Malay: arang
Malayalam: കരി (ml) ( kari )
Maltese: faħam tal-injam
Manchu: ᠶᠠᡥᠠ ( yaha )
Manx: geayl foiee m
Maori: ngārehu , ngārahu
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: модны нүүрс ( modny nüürs )
Nanai: сиалта ( sialta )
Navajo: tʼeesh
Northern Sami: čađđa
Northern Thai: ᨳ᩵ᩣ᩠ᨶ , ᨳ᩵ᩣ᩠ᨶᨾᩱ᩵
Norwegian:
Bokmål: trekull n
Nynorsk: trekol n
Occitan: carbon de fusta
Ojibwe: akakanshe
Old East Slavic: угъль m ( ugŭlĭ ) , угль m ( uglĭ )
Old English: col n
Ottoman Turkish: كومور ( kömür )
Pashto: ذغال m ( zǧāl )
Persian: ذغال (fa) ( zoğâl ) , سکار (fa) ( sakâr ) , زغال (fa) ( zoğâl ) , انگشت (fa) ( angešt )
Pitjantjatjara: aḻṯa
Plautdietsch: Holtkol f
Polish: węgiel drzewny (pl) m
Portuguese: carvão (pt) m
Quechua: k'illimsa
Romani: angar m
Romanian: cărbune (ro) m , cărbune de lemn m , cărbune vegetal (ro) m
Russian: древе́сный у́голь m ( drevésnyj úgolʹ ) , у́голь (ru) m ( úgolʹ )
Samoan: malāla
Sanskrit: अङ्गार (sa) m ( aṅgāra )
Scottish Gaelic: gual-fhiodha
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дрвени угаљ m , у̏гље̄н m
Roman: drveni ugalj m , ȕgljēn (sh) m
Sicilian: carbonella
Silesian: drzewny wōngel
Slovak: drevené uhlie n
Slovene: oglje (sl)
Somali: dhuxul dhagax
Spanish: carbón (es) m , carbón vegetal m
Swabian: holzkohle
Swahili: kaa (sw)
Swedish: träkol (sv) n
Tagalog: uling
Tahitian: ʻārahu
Tajik: зуғол ( zuġol ) , ангишт (tg) ( angišt )
Tamil: கரி (ta) ( kari )
Taos: úyna
Tatar: агач күмере ( ağaç kümere )
Thai: ถ่านไม้ ( tàan-máai ) , ถ่าน (th) ( tàan )
Turkish: odun kömürü (tr)
Ukrainian: деревне́ вугі́лля n ( derevné vuhíllja ) , вугі́лля n ( vuhíllja )
Uzbek: pista koʻmir
Vehes: carbó vegetal
Venetian: carboneła
Vietnamese: than gỗ (vi) , than củi (vi)
Welsh: golosg m , dylosg f
West Frisian: houtskoal
White Hmong: thee
Yámana: ikipašax
Yiddish: האָלצקויל ( holtskoyl )
Adjective
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charcoal (comparative more charcoal , superlative most charcoal )
Of a dark gray colour .
Made of charcoal.
2006 , Edwin Black , chapter 2, in Internal Combustion [2] :But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
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charcoal (third-person singular simple present charcoals , present participle charcoaling , simple past and past participle charcoaled )
To draw with charcoal.
To cook over charcoal. See also
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