Zirkon
German edit
Etymology edit
This, as in the same decade Zirkonium, has been formed artificially by Abraham Gottlob Werner in the 1780s from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn) and then this mineral and metal name spread from German into all European languages and the world.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Zirkon m (strong, genitive Zirkons, plural Zirkone)
Declension edit
Declension of Zirkon [masculine, strong]
Descendants edit
- → Belarusian: цырко́н (cyrkón)
- → Bulgarian: циркон (cirkon)
- → Catalan: zircó
- → Czech: zirkon
- → Danish: zirkon
- → English: zircon
- → Estonian: tsirkoon
- → French: zircon
- → Finnish: zirkoni
- → Hungarian: cirkon
- → Italian: zircone
- → Japanese: ジルコン (jirukon)
- → Lithuanian: cirkonas
- → Macedonian: циркон (cirkon)
- → Polish: cyrkon
- → Portuguese: zircão
- → Romanian: zircon
- → Russian: цирко́н (cirkón)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: zirkón
- → Slovene: cirkon
- → Spanish: circón
- → Swedish: zirkon
- → Tagalog: sirkon
- → Ukrainian: цирко́н (cyrkón)