geyser

Etymology
From the name of a particular Icelandic geyser which is mentioned as early as the 1760s in The Annual Register, as “Geyser, a wonderful spring in the valley of Haukadal”. From, the name of the hot spring in Iceland (see Wikipedia), from the verb , from. .

Pronunciation


 Wikipedia describes geysers in the History subsection of the article: Water heating



Noun

 * 1)  A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.
 * 2)  A momentary vertical jet or fountain of fluid driven upwards by a violent force.
 * 3)  An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater.
 * 4)  A domestic water boiler.
 * 1)  A domestic water boiler.
 * 1)  A domestic water boiler.
 * 1)  A domestic water boiler.
 * 1)  A domestic water boiler.

Translations

 * Arabic: سَخَّان
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: geiser
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: გეიზერი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: גייזר
 * Hindi: उष्णोत्स
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: geyser,
 * Irish: géasar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: гейзер
 * Korean:
 * Latin: fons calidae atque alte exsilientis aquae
 * Latvian: geizers
 * Lithuanian: geizeris
 * Malay: geiser
 * Maori: waiariki,, puia, , pōhutu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: geysir, springkilde
 * Nynorsk: gøyskjelde, geysir, springkjelde
 * Occitan: gueisèr
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: гејзир
 * Slovak: gejzír
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: gaiza
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ไกเซอร์
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: ге́йзер
 * Vietnamese: mạch nước phun
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: giser


 * Bulgarian: проточен бойлер
 * Dutch:, geizer
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk: vasshetar


 * Bengali: গিজার
 * Georgian: წყალგამათბობელი, ბოილერი
 * Russian: ,
 * Urdu: گِیزَر

Verb

 * 1)  To (cause to) rush or burst upward like water from a geyser.

Etymology
, related to the verb.