Glass bottles of kerosene near Moscow , Russia. Alternative forms
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Etymology
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Ancient Greek κηρός ( kērós , “ wax ” ) + -ene trademarked in 1854.
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IPA (key ) : /ˈkɛɹəsiːn/ Audio (Southern England) (file )
kerosene (countable and uncountable plural kerosenes
A thin colorless , blue - or straw -colored petroleum -based fuel heavier than gasoline /petrol or naptha but lighter than diesel , used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas.
Synonym: paraffin ( UK ) The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm.
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel ”, in The Economist 408 , number 8847 :The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. [ …] It was used to make kerosene , the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
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thin, colorless fuel
Albanian: vajgur (sq) m
Arabic: كِيرُوسِين m ( kīrūsīn )
Egyptian Arabic: جاز m ( gāz )
Armenian: կերոսին (hy) ( kerosin )
Assamese: কেৰাচিন ( kerasin )
Azerbaijani: kerosin ağ neft lampa nefti ağ nöyüd
Basque: keroseno (eu)
Belarusian: га́за f ( háza ) , керасі́н m ( kjerasín )
Bulgarian: кероси́н m ( kerosín )
Burmese: ရေနံဆီ (my) ( renamhci )
Catalan: querosè m
Chamicuro: kerosina
Chinese:
Cantonese: 火水 (yue) ( fo2 seoi2 )
Mandarin: 煤油 (zh) ( méiyóu ) , 火油 (zh) ( huǒyóu ) , 燈油 ／ 灯油 (zh) ( dēngyóu )
Czech: petrolej (cs) m
Danish: petroleum
Dhivehi: ކަރާސީނު ( karāsīnu )
Dutch: kerosine (nl) f
Esperanto: keroseno petrolo
Estonian: petrooleum lambiõli
Finnish: petroli (fi) ( generic ) , kerosiini (fi) ( high quality )
French: kérosène (fr) m
Galician: queroseno m
Georgian: კეროსინი ( ḳerosini ) , ნავთი ( navti )
German: Petroleum (de) n ( aviation ) Kerosin (de) n
Gujarati: ઘાસલેટ ( ghāsleṭ )
Hebrew: קֵרוֹסִין m ( kerosin )
Hindi: मिट्टी का तेल ( miṭṭī kā tel ) , केरोसीन ( kerosīn )
Hungarian: kerozin (hu)
Hunsrik: Kërosen n
Icelandic: kerósín
Indonesian: kerosin (id)
Irish: ceirisín
Italian: cherosene (it) m
Japanese: 灯油 (ja) ( とうゆ, tōyu ) , ケロシン ( keroshin )
Kalmyk: намк ( namk )
Kazakh: керосин (kk) ( kerosin )
Khmer: កាត (km) ( kaat )
Korean: 등유(燈油) (ko) ( deung'yu ) , 케로신 ( kerosin )
Kumyk: нап ( nap )
Kyrgyz: керосин (ky) m ( kerosin )
Lao: ກ້າດ ( kāt )
Latvian: petroleja f
Lithuanian: žibalas m
Malay: minyak tanah
Malayalam: മണ്ണെണ്ണ (ml) ( maṇṇeṇṇa )
Maori: karahīni
Mongolian: керосин (mn) ( kerosin )
Navajo: akʼahkǫʼ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: parafin (no) m
Nynorsk: parafin m
Persian: نفت سفید ( naft-e sefid ) , نفت (fa) ( naft ) , نفت چراغ ( naft-e čerâğ ) , کروسن ( kerosen )
Polish: nafta (pl) f
Portuguese: querosene (pt) f
Punjabi: ਮਿੱਟੀ ਦਾ ਤੇਲ ( miṭṭī dā tel )
Quechua: kirusini
Romanian: petrol lampant (ro) n
Russian: кероси́н (ru) m ( kerosín )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: керозин m
Roman: kerozin (sh) m
Slovak: petrolej (sk) m
Slovene: petrolej m
Spanish: queroseno (es) m canfín ( Costa Rica )
Swedish: fotogen (sv) c
Tagalog: gaas kerosina
Tajik: керосин ( kerosin )
Thai: น้ำมันก๊าด ( nám-man-gáat ) , ก๊าด (th) ( gáat )
Turkish: kerosen (tr)
Turkmen: kerosin
Ukrainian: гас m ( has ) , кероси́н (uk) m ( kerosýn )
Uzbek: kerosin (uz)
Vietnamese: dầu hỏa (vi) , dầu lửa kêrôsin
Yoruba: barafín kẹrosíìnì
Zulu: uphalafini
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