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flint meaning in Urdu

چقماق caqmāq

/flɪnt/

flint in Urdu: چقماق (caqmāq). 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.

Urdu words for flint

flint
چقماق caqmāq

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.

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Questions about flint in Urdu

What is the meaning of flint in Urdu?
Flint in Urdu is چقماق (caqmāq).
flint کا اردو میں کیا مطلب ہے؟
Flint: چقماق (caqmāq).
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.

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Urdu words from Wiktionary's Urdu entries whose English meaning is “flint”: چقماق. 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 Urdu words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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