Petroleum

Noun

 * 1) A flammable liquid ranging in color from clear to very dark brown and black, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in deposits under earth surface.

Synonyms

 * oil
 * gas
 * gasoline
 * petroil
 * petrol

Derived terms

 * packaged petroleum product
 * petroleum coke
 * petroleum ether
 * petroleum jelly
 * petroleum spirit

Thesaurus
avgas, benzine, coal oil, crude, crude oil, electricity, ethyl, ethyl gas, fossil oil, gas, gasoline, high-octane gas, high-test, illuminant, illuminating gas, kerosene, lead-free gas, light source, low-lead gas, luminant, motor oil, oil, paraffin, petrol, premium gas, regular, rock oil

Etymology
From petroleum: from petra: + oleum:.

Translations

 * Arabic: نفط
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܢܦܛܐ (nefṬā, nefṬo)
 * Hebrew: נפטא (nefṬā, nefṬo)
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, nafto
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: petroleo


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 石油 (sekiyu)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: nafta
 * Navajo: ,
 * Persian: اتش
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ţiţei
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: нафта
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: petrol