# obsidian
## English
### Etymology

From Latin obsidianus; named after Obsidius, who was, according to Pliny, the Roman who discovered the stone in Aethiopia.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌɒbˈsɪd.i.ən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US, also) IPA: /əbˈsɪd.i.ən/
* Rhymes: -ɪdiən

### Noun

obsidian (usually uncountable, plural obsidians)
* (mineralogy) A type of naturally occurring black glass produced by volcanoes.
    Synonym: obby
** 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.
* A slightly bluish black, the color of obsidian glass.
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#### Hyponyms

* fire obsidian
* rainbow obsidian
* sheen obsidian
* snowflake obsidian

#### Translations

Afrikaans: lawaglas
Arabic: سَبَج m (sabaj)
Armenian: վանակատ (vanakat)
Bulgarian: обсидиан m (obsidian)
Catalan: obsidiana (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 黑曜岩 (zh) (hēiyàoyán), 黑曜石 (zh) (Hēiyàoshí)
Czech: obsidián m
Danish: obsidian c or n
Dutch: lavaglas, obsidiaan (nl)
Egyptian: (kf m)
Esperanto: obsidiano
Finnish: obsidiaani, laavalasi
French: obsidienne (fr) f
Georgian: ობსიდიანი (ka) (obsidiani)
German: Obsidian (de) m, Glasachat m
Greek: οψιδιανός (el) m (opsidianós)
Hawaiian: mākā
Hindi: ज्वालाकाच (jvālākāc)
Hungarian: obszidián (hu)
Icelandic: hrafntinna (is) f
Ido: obsidiano (io)
Indonesian: obsidian (id), batu kendan, batu kaca (literally “glass stone”)
Italian: ossidiana (it) f
Japanese: 黒曜石 (ja) (kokuyōseki)
Korean: 흑요석 (heugyoseok)
Maori: tūhua, matā, matā tūhua
Nahuatl: itztli (nah), citlālcuitlatl
Nandi: sengwet
Navajo: noolyínii
Polish: obsydian (pl) m
Portuguese: obsidiana (pt) f
Romanian: obsidian (ro) n
Russian: обсидиа́н (ru) m (obsidián)
Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
Serbo-Croatian: opsidijan (sh) m
Seri: pajii
Slovak: obsidián (sk) m
Spanish: obsidiana (es) f
Swedish: obsidian (sv) c
Tagalog: obsidiyana
Turkish: obsidyen (tr), obsidiyen (tr)
Vietnamese: đá vỏ chai
Yiddish: אָבסידיאַן m (obsidyan) :

### Adjective

obsidian (comparative more obsidian, superlative most obsidian)
* (poetic) Black.
** 1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits:Looks like a yellow biscuit of a buttery cue ball moon / Rolling maverick across an obsidian sky

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* anobiids

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʌbsidiˈæˀn/

### Noun

obsidian c or n (singular definite obsidianen or obsidianet, not used in plural form)
* obsidian

### Further reading

* “obsidian” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “obsidian” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch obsidiaan, from Latin obsidianus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔp.si.ˈdi.an/
* Rhymes: -an, -n
* Hyphenation: ob‧si‧di‧an

### Noun

obsidian (plural obsidian-obsidian)
* (geology) obsidian

### Further reading

* “obsidian” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French obsidiane, from Latin obsidiana.

### Noun

obsidian n (plural obsidiane)
* obsidian

#### Declension
### Further reading

* obsidian in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Swedish
### Noun

obsidian c
* obsidian