Masculine

charbon

  1. (masculine) coal
  2. (masculine) anthrax
  3. (masculine) smut (range of fungi that cause crop disease); fungus of the genus Ustilago

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃaʁ.bɔ̃/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old French charbon, inherited from Latin carbōnem (“coal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ker (“to burn”). Doublet of carbone.

węgiel

κάρβουνο

carbon

άνθρακας

γαιάνθρακας

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