Borrowed fromFrench friable Latin friābilis ( “ friable ” ) , fromfriō ( “ I crumble ” ) .
friable (comparative morefriable ,superlative mostfriable )
Easily broken into smallfragments ,crumbled , or reduced topowder .1977 Angela Carter ,The Passion of New Eve :Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between thefriable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.
1983 Lawrence Durrell ,Sebastian , Avignon Quintet edition, Faber & Faber, published2004 , page1020 :This light,friable type of material offered excellent insulation against both desert heat and also the cold of darkness during the winter.
( geology ) soil ,loose and large-grained inconsistency .1890 The Golden Bough :So while two men under his directions were digging the grave with sticks in thefriable granitic soil, he superintended the costume of the other actors in the drama.
( toxicology ) poison , likely to crumble and becomeairborne , thus becoming ahealth risk .April 1987 ,Old-House Journal :It is whenasbestos -containing products arefriable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne. ( mathematics ) number :smooth , thatfactors completely into smallprime numbers .( easily broken into small fragments ) : crumbly easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder
Armenian:փխրուն (hy) ( pʻxrun ) ,փուխր (hy) ( pʻuxr ) Bulgarian:ронлив (bg) ( ronliv ) ,трошлив (bg) ( trošliv ) Finnish:hauras (fi) ,hapero (fi) French:friable (fr) ,cassant (fr) German:bröselig (de) ,mürbe (de) ,brüchig (de) ,krümelig bröckelig zerreibbar Greek:Ancient:ψαθυρός ( psathurós ) Irish:briosc Italian:friabile (it) ,sfoglioso m Macedonian:ро́нлив ( rónliv ) ,тро́шлив ( tróšliv ) Maori:ngahoro pōkurukuru ioio Norman:friabl'ye m or f Ottoman Turkish:یوفقه ( yufka ) Polish:kruchy (pl) ,sypki (pl) Portuguese:friável (pt) Romanian:friabil (ro) ,casant (ro) ,fragil (ro) ,fărâmicios (ro) Russian:тре́скающийся (ru) ( tréskajuščijsja ) ,кроша́щийся (ru) ( krošáščijsja ) ,рассы́пчатый (ru) ( rassýpčatyj ) ,ло́мкий (ru) ( lómkij ) ,сы́пкий ( sýpkij ) Serbo-Croatian:prhak (sh) m Spanish:friable (es) ,frágil (es) ,quebradizo (es) ,desmenuzable (es) Turkish:ezilgen (tr) Tày:bông Ukrainian:ламкий ( lamkyj ) Vietnamese:tơi (vi)
loose and large-grained in consistency
Armenian:փխրուն (hy) ( pʻxrun ) ,փուխր (hy) ( pʻuxr ) Belarusian:пу́хкі ( púxki ) ,дру́злы ( drúzly ) Bulgarian:рохкав (bg) ( rohkav ) ,сипкав (bg) ( sipkav ) Finnish:irtonainen (fi) French:lâche (fr) ,friable (fr) German:krümelig bröselig (de) Italian:allentado Macedonian:си́плив ( sípliv ) Maori:takataka ngahoro marewa Norman:friabl'ye m or f Romanian:friabil (ro) Russian:ры́хлый (ru) ( rýxlyj ) ,сыпу́чий (ru) ( sypúčij ) ( like sand ) Serbo-Croatian:sipak (sh) m sipkav (sh) m Spanish:flojo (es) Swedish:lucker (sv) Tày:bông Ukrainian:крихки́й ( kryxkýj ) ,пухки́й ( puxkýj ) ,сипу́чий ( sypúčyj ) ,сипки́й ( sypkýj ) Vietnamese:tơi (vi)
Translations to be checked
William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “friable ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. ,→OCLC “friable ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC Inherited fromLatin friābilis friō ( “ to crumble ” ) .
friable (plural friables
crumbly crummy ,pitiful IPA (key ) : /ˈfɾjable/ [ˈfɾja.β̞le] Rhymes:-able Syllabification:fria‧ble friable m or f masculine and feminine plural friables
friable crumbly 
