Meanings
adjectivecoal black (not comparable)
- not comparableOf an intensely black colour, like that of coal.
Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes […]
1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 1101 more example
Hung in the stocking / For my empty coal-black soul
2023, “Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This”, performed by Eels
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Origin
- Middle Englishcolblak
- Englishcoal black
From Middle English colblak, colblake, cole-blak, cole-blake, coleblacke, colle blake, from the phrase blak as cole (“black as coal”).
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Catalan negre carbó
- negre carbóOf a black colour, like that of coal
Danish kulsort
- kulsortOf a black colour, like that of coal
Estonian süsimust
- süsimustOf a black colour, like that of coal
Finnish hiilenmusta, hiilimusta
- hiilenmustaOf a black colour, like that of coal
- hiilimustaOf a black colour, like that of coal
German kohlenschwarz
- kohlenschwarzOf a black colour, like that of coal
Hungarian szénfekete
- szénfeketeOf a black colour, like that of coal
Indonesian hitam arang
- hitam arangOf a black colour, like that of coal
Irish gualda
- gualdaOf a black colour, like that of coal
Japanese 石炭黒
- 石炭黒 (sekitan kuro)Of a black colour, like that of coal
Latin anthracinus
- anthracinusOf a black colour, like that of coal
Norwegian Bokmål kullsvart
- kullsvartOf a black colour, like that of coal
Persian زغالی
- زغالی (zoġâli)Of a black colour, like that of coal
Romanian negru ca cărbunele
- negru ca cărbuneleOf a black colour, like that of coal
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