shale

Etymology
From, from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). . See also.

Noun



 * 1) A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
 * 2)  A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
 * 1)  A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

Usage notes
Before the mid-19th century, the terms, and  were not sharply distinguished. that are subject to heat and pressure alter into, then and finally to.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Galician: cadorna,
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian: шиста
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 頁岩
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: lupek, jílovitá břidlice
 * Esperanto: skisto
 * Finnish: savikivi,
 * French:
 * Galician: rachón,
 * Georgian: თიხიანი ფიქალი
 * German: Tonschiefer
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: leirsteinn, leirflögur
 * Ingrian: savislantsa
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 泥板岩
 * Korean: 혈암(頁岩)
 * Macedonian: шкри́лец
 * Norman: bliu-pièrre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: leirskifer, skifer
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, škriljevac
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: lerskiffer,
 * Tagalog: eskuwisto
 * Turkish: ,

Verb

 * 1) To take off the shell or coat of.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,

Noun

 * 1) bus