earthenware

English

Earthenware pottery

Etymology

From earthen +‎ -ware, first recorded appearance in 1673.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəːθ(ə)nwɛː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

earthenware (countable and uncountable, plural earthenwares)

1. (ceramics, often attributive) An opaque, semi-porous ceramic made from clay and other compounds.

   Coordinate term: stoneware

   earthenware bowl

Translations

ceramic

• Bulgarian: глинени изделия pl (glineni izdelija)
• Catalan: pisa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陶器 (zh) (táoqì)

• Dutch: aardewerk (nl) n
• Finnish: savitavara (fi), kivitavara (fi)
• French: poterie (fr) f
• Galician: louza (gl) f
• German: Töpferwaren (de) f pl
• Hindi: मृद्भांड m (mŕdbhāṇḍ)
• Indonesian: tembikar (id)
• Italian: coccio (it) m, terraglia f
• Japanese: 瀬戸物 (ja) (せともの, setomono), 土器 (ja) (どき, doki, かわらけ, kawarake)
• Kabuverdianu: póti
• Latin: fictilis
• Malayalam: മൺപാത്രം (ml) (maṇpātraṁ)
• Nahuatl: tepalcatl
• Navajo: łeetsʼaaʼ
• Norman: tèrr'rie f
• Persian: سفال (fa) (sofâl)
• Polish: ceramika (pl) f
• Portuguese: cerâmica (pt) f
• Punjabi: بھانڈا m (bhānḍā)
• Quechua: kaña
• Russian: гли́няные изде́лия n pl (glínjanyje izdélija), гонча́рные изде́лия n pl (gončárnyje izdélija)
• Sanskrit: मृद्भाण्ड (sa) n (mṛdbhāṇḍa)
• Spanish: loza (es) f, cerámica (es) f
• Ukrainian: череп'яний посуд (čerepʺjanyj posud), гонча́рні ви́роби (hončárni výroby)

Further reading

• earthenware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia