marble

Etymology
From, , from and , from , from , perhaps related to. Much of the early classical marble came from the 'Marmaris' sea above the Aegean. The forms from French replaced, which had previously been borrowed from Latin.

Noun

 * 1)  A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.
 * 2) * 1751, (librettist), :
 * Open thy marble jaws, O tomb / And hide me, earth, in thy dark womb.
 * 1)  A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic.
 * 2)  Statues made from marble.
 * 1)  Statues made from marble.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: رُخَام
 * Egyptian Arabic: رخام
 * Moroccan Arabic: رخام
 * Aragonese: marbre
 * Aramaic: שישא
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: marmar, marmurã, marmuri, mirmer
 * Assamese: মৰ্মৰ, মাৰ্বল
 * Asturian: mármole, mármol
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: мәрмәр
 * Basque: marmol
 * Belarusian: ма́рмур
 * Breton: marbr
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏓᏲᏍᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 雲石, 大理石
 * Hakka: 大理石
 * Hokkien:, 石石
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: mermer
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Elfdalian: marmor
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: marmor
 * Faroese: marmor
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Middle French: marbre
 * Old French: marbre
 * Friulian: marmul
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μάρμαρος
 * Greenlandic: maarmori
 * Gujarati: આરસપહાણ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: संगमरमर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: mraamori
 * Irish: marmar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, マーブル
 * Kalmyk: һаньтг
 * Kannada:
 * Karachay-Balkar: мермер
 * Kazakh: мәрмәр
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian: marmuras
 * Macedonian: мермер
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: marmar
 * Maltese: rħam
 * Manx: marmyr
 * Maori: māpere
 * Marathi: संगमरवर
 * Mirandese: mármole
 * Mongolian:
 * Neapolitan: marmulo
 * Newar: दुरुल्वहं
 * Nogai: мермер
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: marmor
 * Occitan:, , maubre
 * Old East Slavic: мороморъ
 * Old English: marmstān
 * Ossetian: мармӕр
 * Ottoman Turkish: مرمر
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਮਰਮਰ,
 * Quechua: pachar
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: marmel
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: màrmuri, màrmuru, mràmuri
 * Scottish Gaelic: marmor
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мрамор, мермер
 * Roman: ,
 * Shor: мармар
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: කිරිගරුඩ
 * Slovak: mramor
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: batumbuhay, marmol
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ма́рмур
 * Urdu: سنگ مرمر, مرمر
 * Uyghur: مەرمەر
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: màrmaro, marmo, màlmaro, marmor
 * Vietnamese: (𥒥花),  (錦石)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: marmor
 * West Frisian: moarmer
 * Yakut: мрамор
 * Yiddish: מאַרמאָר, מאַרמער, מירמל


 * Afrikaans: albaster
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: بِلْيَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: بِلِي
 * Gulf Arabic: تِيلَة
 * Hijazi Arabic: بَرَجون
 * North Levantine Arabic: دحل / دحلة, كلة / كل
 * Tunisian Arabic: بيسة, بيسة
 * Armenian: շարիկ
 * Assamese: বিৰিং গুটি
 * Basque: puxtarri
 * Biatah Bidayuh: gurii
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 波子
 * Hakka: 圓珠仔
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, kuličky
 * Danish: marmorkugle
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: rulglobeto
 * Finnish:, lasikuula, pissikivi
 * French:, , canique
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: גולה, גולות
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian: biglia,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: кішкене шар
 * Korean: 구슬
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Macedonian: џамлија
 * Malay:
 * Jawi:, ݢوندو, جاکا, کلرڠ
 * Rumi:, gundu, , kelerang
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: hītimi
 * Mingrelian:
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: máázo
 * Norwegian:
 * Odia:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: szklana kulka
 * Portuguese: bola de gude, berlinde
 * Russian:, марбл
 * Scottish Gaelic: marbal, drillean, mirleag, triuirean
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кликер
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: guľôčka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,  , bola de cristal , bola de vidrio ,  , bolincha , bolindre ,  , cachina ,  , mable ,  ,  , metra ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, spelkula
 * Tagalog: holen
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Tausug: hūlin
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: marblen, marblys

Verb

 * 1)  To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.
 * 2)  To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.
 * 3)  To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.
 * 4) * 1848, Samuel D. Martin, in a letter to the Albany Cultivator, quoted in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture (for the year 1859; published 1860), page 157:
 * Their flesh is soft (tender), and they throw a portion of their fat among the lean so as to marble it. The beef is of a better quality and they take on fat much easier.
 * 1)  To become interlaced with fat;  to interlace through meat.
 * 2)  To lace or be laced throughout.
 * 1) * 1848, Samuel D. Martin, in a letter to the Albany Cultivator, quoted in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture (for the year 1859; published 1860), page 157:
 * Their flesh is soft (tender), and they throw a portion of their fat among the lean so as to marble it. The beef is of a better quality and they take on fat much easier.
 * 1)  To become interlaced with fat;  to interlace through meat.
 * 2)  To lace or be laced throughout.
 * 1)  To become interlaced with fat;  to interlace through meat.
 * 2)  To lace or be laced throughout.
 * 1)  To lace or be laced throughout.
 * 1)  To lace or be laced throughout.
 * 1)  To lace or be laced throughout.
 * 1)  To lace or be laced throughout.
 * 1)  To lace or be laced throughout.

Translations

 * Asturian: xaspiar
 * Catalan:, mabrejar
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: marmaraigh
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, harelemek


 * Finnish:


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 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:

Adjective

 * 1) Made of, or resembling, marble.
 * 2)  Cold; hard; unfeeling.
 * 1)  Cold; hard; unfeeling.
 * 1)  Cold; hard; unfeeling.