zinc

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zinc

Chemical element
Zn	Previous: copper (Cu)
Zn	Next: gallium (Ga)

Zinc cube, fragment and dendrite.

EtymologyEdit

From German Zink, related to Zinke (“point, prong”), from Middle High German zinke, from Old High German zinko (“prong, tine”), allied to zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Old English tind (“tine, prong”), Middle Low German tinde, Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”). See also Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne (“tooth of a rake”), More at tine.

PronunciationEdit

(US) IPA^(key): /zɪŋk/
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Rhymes: -ɪŋk

NounEdit

zinc (uncountable)

a chemical element (symbol Zn) with an atomic number of 30.

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TranslationsEdit

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Afrikaans: sink
Albanian: zink (sq)
Arabic: خَارَصِين‎ m (ḵāraṣīn), تُوتِيَاء‎ (tūtiyāʾ), زِنْك‎ (zink)
Armenian: ցինկ (hy) (cʿink)
Asturian: cinc (ast) m
Azeri: sink (az)
Basque: zinka
Belarusian: цынк m (cynk)
Bengali: দস্তা (dôsta)
Berber:
Tashelhit: aqzdir m
Breton: zink (br) m
Bulgarian: цинк m (cink)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: zinc (ca)
Central Melanau: zink
Cherokee: ᎦᏙᎤᎳᏂ (gadoulani)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鋅 (zh), 锌 (zh) (xīn)
Cornish: synk
Czech: zinek (cs) m
Danish: zink (da) c, n
Dutch: zink (nl) n
Esperanto: zinko (eo)
Estonian: tsink (et)
Faroese: sink
Finnish: sinkki (fi)
French: zinc (fr) m
Friulian: zinc
Galician: cinc (gl)
Georgian: თუთია (tutia)
German: Zink (de) n
Greek: ψευδάργυρος (el) m (psevdárgyros)
Greenlandic: zinki
Hebrew: אבץ‎ (he) m (avats)
Hindi: जस्ता (hi) m (jastā)
Hungarian: cink (hu)
Icelandic: sink (is)
Ido: zinko (io)
Indonesian: seng (id)
Interlingua: zinc
Irish: sinc (ga)
Italian: zinco (it) m
Japanese: 亜鉛 (ja) (あえん, aen)
Kashubian: cynk
Kazakh: мырыш (kk) (mırış)

Khmer: ស័ង្កសី (km) (saŋka’səy)
Korean: 아연 (ko) (ayeon) (亞鉛 (ko))
Latin: zincum (la)
Latvian: cinks m
Lithuanian: cinkas (lt)
Lojban: zinki
Luxembourgish: Zénk
Macedonian: цинк m (cink)
Malay: zink, seng, timah sari, ayan
Malayalam: നാകം (ml) (nākaṃ), വെളുത്തീയം (ml) (veḷuttīyaṃ)
Maltese: żingu m
Manx: shinc m, meain ghorrym f
Maori: konutea, tingiki
Mongolian: цайр (mn) (tsajr), цинк (tsink)
Navajo: béésh dootłʼizh
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sink (no) m, n

Nynorsk: sink (nn) m, n
Persian: روی‎ (fa) (ruy)
Polish: cynk (pl) m
Portuguese: zinco (pt) m
Romanian: zinc (ro) n
Russian: цинк (ru) m (cink)
Scottish Gaelic: sinc
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ци̏нк m

Roman: cȉnk (sh) m
Slovak: zinok (sk) m
Slovene: cink (sl) m
Spanish: zinc (es) m, cinc (es) m
Swahili: zinki
Swedish: zink (sv) n
Tagalog: singk
Tajik: руҳ (ruh)
Tamil: நாகம் (ta) (nākam)
Thai: สังกะสี (th) (sănggàsĕe)
Turkish: çinko (tr)
Ukrainian: цинк m (cynk)
Uzbek: rux (uz)
Cyrillic: рух
Vietnamese: kẽm (vi)
Volapük: zinkin (vo)
Welsh: zinc (cy)
West Frisian: sink n
Yiddish: צינק‎ n (tsink)

VerbEdit

zinc (third-person singular simple present zincs, present participle zincing or zinking or zincking, simple past and past participle zinced or zinked or zincked)

(rare) To electroplate with zinc.
(rare) To coat with sunblock incorporating zinc oxide.

SynonymsEdit

(electroplate with zinc): galvanize

TranslationsEdit

electroplate with zinc

coat with sunblock incorporating zinc oxide

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