charbon

charbon

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
French charbonbor.
English charbon

    Borrowed from French charbon (“coal; anthrax”).

    Pronunciation

    (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) (particularly: Webster does not give the pronunciation, on the stress; the OED has /ˈʃɑːbɒ̃/))

    • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑː(ɹ)bən/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bən

    Noun

    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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

    Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    charbon m (plural charbons)

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

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Haitian Creole: chabon
    • → Turkish: şarbon

    See also

    Further reading

    Old French

    Etymology

    From Latin carbō, carbōnem (“coal”).

    Noun

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

    1. coal

    Descendants

    Scottish Gaelic

    Noun

    charbon

    1. lenited form of carbon

    Welsh

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈχarbɔn/

    Noun

    charbon

    1. aspirate mutation of carbon

    Mutation

    Mutated forms of carbon
    radical soft nasal aspirate
    carbon garbon ngharbon charbon

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

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