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flint meaning in Punjabi

ਫਲਿੰਟ

/flɪnt/

flint in Punjabi: ਫਲਿੰਟ, ਫ਼ਲਿੰਟ. 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.

Punjabi words for flint

ਫਲਿੰਟ, ਫ਼ਲਿੰਟ

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 Punjabi

What is the meaning of flint in Punjabi?
Flint in Punjabi is ਫਲਿੰਟ, ਫ਼ਲਿੰਟ.
flint ਦਾ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੀ ਅਰਥ ਹੈ?
Flint: ਫਲਿੰਟ, ਫ਼ਲਿੰਟ.
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

Punjabi words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “flint”. 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 Punjabi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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