raw material

English

Noun

raw material (countable and uncountable, plural raw materials)

1. A material in its unprocessed, natural state considered usable for manufacture.

   Petroleum is the raw material refined into various fuels and needed for countless chemicals.

   • 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: New yard at Scunthorpe”, in Modern Railways, page 221:

     The three main firms […] are increasing their output capacity and it is estimated that by 1964-5 railborne traffic will be about a third greater than the 1960 figure, reaching a total of something like 13½ million tons per annum, of which some 70 per cent will be inwards raw materials for these firms.

2. (figuratively) Any physical product serving as input to a factory or other installation which processes it.

   The assembly plant's raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers.

   • 2024 October, “Water Treatment Competition”, in ASCE‎^[1], page 11:

     Teams will place all their unassembled raw materials and tools in the competition area along with two provided 5-gallon buckets of contaminated water and two provided stirring sticks.

Translations

material in its unprocessed, natural state

• Armenian: հումք (hy) (humkʻ)
• Azerbaijani: xammal
• Bashkir: сеймал (seymal)
• Belarusian: сыраві́на f (syravína)
• Bulgarian: суровина́ f (suroviná)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原料 (zh) (yuánliào), 原材料 (zh) (yuáncáiliào)

• Czech: surovina (cs) f
• Danish: råstof (da) n
• Dutch: grondstof (nl) n
• Esperanto: krudaĵo
• Faroese: ráevni n
• Finnish: raaka-aine (fi)
• French: matière première (fr) f
• German: Rohstoff (de) m, Grundstoff (de) m
• Hindi: कच्ची सामग्री f (kaccī sāmagrī)
• Hungarian: nyersanyag (hu)
• Icelandic: hráefni n
• Irish: amhábhar m, bunábhar m
• Italian: materia prima (it) f
• Japanese: 原料 (ja) (げんりょう, genryō)
• Kazakh: шикізат (şikızat)
• Korean: 원료(原料) (ko) (wollyo)
• Latvian: izejviela f, izejmateriāls m
• Macedonian: суровина f (surovina)
• Maori: rawa taketake
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: råmateriale n, råmaterial n, råstoff n

  Nynorsk: råmateriale n, råstoff n

• Polish: surowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: matéria-prima (pt) f
• Romanian: materie primă (ro) f
• Russian: сырьё (ru) n (syrʹjó), необрабо́танный материа́л m (neobrabótannyj materiál)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сѝровина f

  Roman: sìrovina (sh) f

• Slovak: surovina f
• Slovene: surovina f
• Spanish: materia prima f
• Swedish: råvara (sv) c, råmaterial (sv) n
• Telugu: ముడి సరుకు (muḍi saruku)
• Thai: วัตถุดิบ (th) (wát-tù-dìp)
• Turkish: ham madde (tr)
• Ukrainian: сировина́ f (syrovyná)
• Vietnamese: nguyên liệu (vi)

input to an installation which processes it

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原料 (zh) (yuánliào), 原材料 (zh) (yuáncáiliào)

• Dutch: grondstof (nl) n
• Finnish: raaka-aine (fi)
• Hindi: कच्ची सामग्री f (kaccī sāmagrī)
• Irish: (prefix) amh-
• Italian: materia prima (it) f
• Macedonian: суровина f (surovina)
• Portuguese: matéria-prima (pt) f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: råvara (sv) c, råmaterial (sv) n
• Thai: วัตถุดิบ (th) (wát-tù-dìp)

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Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} material i gjallë m
• French: ^{(please verify)} matière première (fr) f
• German: ^{(please verify)} Rohmaterial (de) n, ^{(please verify)} Grundstoff (de) m, ^{(please verify)} Rohstoff (de) m
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} bahan mentah (id)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} sirovina (sh) f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} materia prima f
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} mali ghafi sg or pl