English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
formed from natural + gas , as opposed to coal gas (19th Century).
Pronunciation [ edit ]
natural gas (countable and uncountable , plural natural gases )
A mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons associated with petroleum deposits ; mostly methane with smaller amounts of ethane , propane and butane ; principally used as a fuel .
1946 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Natural Gas at Heathfield”, in Railway Magazine , page 263 :For a good many years, beginning in London, Brighton & South Coast days, the station at Heathfield, between Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne, was lighted by natural gas . The use of this illuminant was discontinued about 1934.
2010 , Kelly Swanson, Human Geography [1] , page 169 :Natural gas is an odorless , colorless gas from inside the Earth. When burned, it provides abundant heat to homes and businesses around the United States and the world.
Derived terms [ edit ]
Translations [ edit ]
mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons associated with petroleum deposits
Afrikaans: aardgas
Arabic: غَاز طَبِيعِيّ m ( ḡāz ṭabīʕiyy )
Armenian: բնական գազ (hy) ( bnakan gaz ) , գազ (hy) ( gaz )
Azerbaijani: təbii qaz
Belarusian: прыро́дны газ m ( pryródny haz )
Bulgarian: приро́ден газ m ( priróden gaz )
Catalan: gas natural m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 天然氣 / 天然气 (zh) ( tiānránqì ) , 天然煤氣 / 天然煤气 ( tiānrán méiqì )
Czech: zemní plyn (cs) m
Danish: naturgas (da) c
Dutch: aardgas (nl) n
Esperanto: tergaso (eo)
Estonian: maagaas (et)
Finnish: maakaasu (fi)
French: gaz naturel (fr) m
Georgian: ბუნებრივი აირი ( bunebrivi airi )
German: Erdgas (de) n
Greek: φυσικό αέριο (el) n ( fysikó aério )
Hungarian: földgáz (hu)
Indonesian: gas alam (id) , gas bumi (id)
Interlingua: gas natural
Irish: gás nádúrtha m
Italian: gas naturale (it) m
Japanese: 天然ガス (ja) ( てんねんガス, tennen gasu ) , 市ガス ( しガス, shigasu )
Kazakh: табиғи газ ( tabiği gaz )
Korean: 천연가스 ( cheonyeon'gaseu )
Kyrgyz: табигый газ ( tabigıy gaz )
Lao: ແກັສທຳມະຊາດ ( kæt tham ma sāt )
Latvian: dabasgāze f
Lithuanian: gamtinės dujos f pl
Macedonian: природен гас m ( priroden gas )
Malay: gas asli
Maori: kapuni
Navajo: níłchʼi łikoní
Norwegian:
Bokmål: naturgass m
Nynorsk: naturgass m
Persian: گاز طبیعی ( gâz-e tabi'i )
Polish: gaz ziemny (pl) m inan
Portuguese: gás natural (pt) m
Punjabi: ਕੁਦਰਤੀ ਗੈਸ f ( kudratī gais )
Romanian: gaz natural n
Russian: приро́дный газ (ru) m ( priródnyj gaz )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: земни плин m , природни гас m
Roman: zemni plin m , prirodni gas m
Slovak: zemný plyn m
Slovene: zemeljski plin m
Spanish: gas natural (es) m
Swahili: gesi asilia class 9
Swedish: naturgas (sv) c
Tagalog: likas na buhag
Tajik: гази табиӣ ( gazi tabiyī )
Tatar: табигый газ ( tabigıy ğaz )
Thai: แก๊สธรรมชาติ , ก๊าซธรรมชาติ
Tibetan: སྣུམ་རླུང ( snum rlung )
Turkish: doğal gaz (tr)
Turkmen: tebigy gaz
Ukrainian: приро́дний газ m ( pryródnyj haz )
Uzbek: tabiiy gaz
Vietnamese: khí thiên nhiên (vi) , khí ga , khí gas , khí đốt
Welsh: nwy naturiol (cy) m
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