Word.ws English Dictionary

flint meaning in Marathi

गार gār

/flɪnt/

flint in Marathi: गार (gār). In English, flint means a hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.

Marathi words for flint

flint
गार gār

English meaning of flint

  1. noun A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
  2. noun A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
  3. noun A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
  4. noun A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.

Full definition of flint

flint in a sentence

  • He used flint to make a fire.
  • He used a flint to make a fire.

flint in other languages

Questions about flint in Marathi

What is the meaning of flint in Marathi?
Flint in Marathi is गार (gār).
flint चा मराठी अर्थ काय आहे?
Flint: गार (gār).
What does flint mean in English?
Flint means a hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.

Source and license

Marathi words from Wiktionary's Marathi entries whose English meaning is “flint”: गार. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: flint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Marathi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-flint.ogg.

Cite this page: “flint meaning in Marathi.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/marathi/flint. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.