Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Summary "Cave, caverna, and grotta"


Here is a summary of words meaning " (limestone) cave."

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-- c/k --

English: (limestone) cave

Portuguese: (calcário) caverna

French: caverne (calcaire)

Spanish: cueva (de piedra caliza)

Catalan: cova (de pedra calcària)

Esperanto: (kalkoŝtona) kaverno

Ilocano: kueba (ti bato apug)

Basque: (kareharrizko) koba

langue d'oc: cauna (de calcari)

Arabic:  كهف الحجر الجيري 

Usik (conlang): kauni

Tagalog: kweba

-- g --

Italian: (calcare) grotta

Corsican: grotta (di calcariu)

Maltese: grotta (franka)

French: grotte (de calcaire)

Dutch: (kalksteen)grot

Breton: groc'h/groh (grec'hier)

Hindi: (चूना पत्थर ) गुफा[cuna pt'thr gupha]

Nepali: ( चुन ढुङ)्गा ग[chn-dhunga-gufa]

Sindarin (conlang): gath, gathrod, (n)groth

-- h --

German: (Tropfstein)höhle

Vietnamese: hang (đá vôi) (𥧎𥒥𥔦)

Alsatian: d' Hehla/d'Hehl (vu Kàlchänthàltig)

-- m --

Georgian: მღვიმე [mghvime]

Azerbaijani: mağara

-- p --

Swahili: pango (la chokaa mawe)

Russian: (известняк) пещера

Bulgarian: пещера

-- b --

Franco-Provencal: bârma

langue d'oc: balma (de calcari)

Hungarian: barlang

-- f --

Sindarin (conlang): fela

-- d --

Chinese: (石灰岩溶)洞 [shíhuīyán róngdòng]

Korean: (석회)동 [seoghoedong]

Japanese: (鍾乳)洞(しょうにゅうどう) [shounyudo]

-- l --

Finnish: luola

Tagalog: langob

-- r --

Ilocano: rukib (ti bato apug)

-- s --

Corsican: sapara (di calcariu)

-- y --

Slovak: (vápencové) jaskyne

Czech: jeskyně

Polish: jaskinia

Tagalog: yungib

-- u --

Irish: uaimh (aolchloiche)

-- o --

Welsh/Cymraeg: ogof






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