feldspar

English

Feldspar

Alternative forms

• felspar

Etymology

Partial calque of German Feldspat, formed from Feld (“field”) + Spat (“spar”), the second element replaced with the English cognate spar.

Noun

feldspar (countable and uncountable, plural feldspars)

1. (mineralogy) Any of a large group of rock-forming minerals that, together, make up about 60% of the earth's outer crust.

Derived terms

• feldsparlike
• glassy feldspar
• potash-feldspar
• potassium feldspar

 

Related terms

• feldspathic
• feldspathoid
• feldspathose

Translations

any of a large group of rock-forming minerals

• Afrikaans: veldspaat
• Arabic: فلسبار m (falasabar)
• Aragonese: feldespato m
• Asturian: feldespatu m
• Basque: feldespato
• Belarusian: палявы шпат m (paljavy špat)
• Breton: feldspat m
• Bulgarian: фелдшпат (bg) m (feldšpat)
• Burmese: ကြွေကျောက် (krwe-kyauk)
• Catalan: feldspat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 長石／长石 (zoeng² sek⁶)

  Mandarin: 長石／长石 (zh) (chángshí)

• Czech: živec (cs) m
• Danish: feldspat c
• Dutch: veldspaat (nl) n
• Esperanto: feldspato (eo)
• Finnish: maasälpä (fi)
• French: feldspath (fr) m
• Galician: feldespato m
• Georgian: მინდვრის შპატები (mindvris šṗaṭebi)
• German: Feldspat (de) m
• Greek: άστριος (el) m (ástrios)
• Hindi: फेल्सपार (phelsapār)
• Hungarian: földpát (hu)
• Icelandic: feldspat n
• Indonesian: felspar (id)
• Irish: iathchloch f
• Italian: feldspato (it) m
• Japanese: 長石 (ja) (ちょうせき, chōseki)
• Korean: 장석 (ko) (jangseok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: feldspat (ku)

• Latvian: laukšpats m
• Limburgish: veldsjpaat
• Lithuanian: feldšpatas m, lauko špatas m
• Manx: clagh vane f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: feltspat m

  Nynorsk: feltspat m

• Occitan: feldspat m
• Persian: فلدسپات (fa)
• Polish: skaleń (pl) m
• Portuguese: feldspato (pt) m
• Romanian: feldspat (ro) m
• Russian: полево́й шпат (ru) m (polevój špat)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фе̏лдшпат m

  Roman: fȅldšpat (sh) m

• Slovak: živec (sk) m
• Slovene: glinenec m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pólny špat m

  Upper Sorbian: pólny špat m

• Spanish: feldespato (es) m
• Swedish: fältspat (sv) c
• Tagalog: peldespato
• Tamil: பெல்ட்ஸ்பார் (pelṭspār)
• Thai: เฟลด์สปาร์ (flâyt-bpaa)
• Turkish: feldspat (tr)
• Ukrainian: польовий шпат m (polʹovyj špat)
• Uzbek: dala shpatlari
• Vietnamese: fenspat (vi)
• Welsh: ffelsbar m

See also

• albite
• bytownite
• andesine
• anorthite
• granite
• labradorite
• microcline
• mineral
• oligoclase
• orthoclase
• rock