lahar

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English

Lahar from the 1982 eruption of Mount St. Helens

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar). Introduced as geological term by Berend George Escher in 1922.

Pronunciation

Noun

lahar (plural lahars)

  1. (geology) A volcanic mudflow.
    • 1985, Jocelyn Thornton, Field Guide to New Zealand Geology, page 204:
      Such a highly destructive mud-flow (termed a lahar) eventually stops as a pile of debris of all shapes and sizes, as mixed up as a glacial moraine; the two deposits have often been confused.
    • 2000, Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff, Alexander R. McBirney, Volcanology, page 138:
      Pyroclastic flows are often difficult to distinguish in outcrops from a similar type of fragmental debris flow known as lahars. Both are characteristically unstratified and unsorted. A deposit containing blocks of varied compositions with rounded shapes is more likely to have been formed by a lahar than by a glowing avalanche.
    • 2006, Andrew J. L. Harris et al., “Downstream aggradation owing to lava dome extrusion and rainfall runoff at Volcán Santiaguito, Guatemala”, in William Ingersoll Rose, editor, Volcanic Hazards in Central America, page 86:
      A regime of persistent lahar activity results when eruptive activity continually supplies unconsolidated volcanic material for remobilization.

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Basque

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown. It is likely that lapar is a cross between lahar and kapar, with the same meaning.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Southern) /lar/, [lar]
  • IPA(key): (Northern) /lahar/, [la.ɦar]

Noun

lahar inan

  1. bramble, blackberry bush
    Synonyms: sasi, (Northern) kapar

Declension

Further reading

  • lahar”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
  • lahar”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English lahar, from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: la‧har
  • IPA(key): /laˈhaɾ/ [l̪ɐˈhaɾ̪]

Noun

lahár

  1. (geology) lahar (volcanic mudflow)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar).

Noun

lahar (first-person possessive laharku, second-person possessive laharmu, third-person possessive laharnya)

  1. lava
  2. (geology) lahar (volcanic mudflow)

Derived terms

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Malay

Etymology

From Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar).

Pronunciation

Noun

lahar (Jawi spelling لاهر, plural lahar-lahar, informal 1st possessive laharku, 2nd possessive laharmu, 3rd possessive laharnya)

  1. lava
    Synonym: lava

Derived terms

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Portuguese

Noun

lahar m (plural lahars or lahares)

  1. (geology) lahar (volcanic mudflow)

Spanish

Noun

lahar m (plural lahares)

  1. lahar

Sumerian

Romanization

lahar

  1. Romanization of 𒇇 (laḫar)

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English lahar, from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar).

Pronunciation

Noun

lahár (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜑᜇ᜔)

  1. (geology) lahar (volcanic mudflow)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

lahar (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜑᜇ᜔) (Rizal, informal)

  1. Alternative form of lahad

Adjective

lahár (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜑᜇ᜔) (Rizal, informal)

  1. Alternative form of lahad

Further reading

  • lahar”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018