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 Old High German zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-Germanic *tinduz, *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- (“tooth, projection”), see also Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne (“tooth of a rake”), Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

zinc (uncountable)

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

Derived termsEdit

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TranslationsEdit

Element

Afrikaans: sink
Albanian: zink
Arabic: خارصين m (xāraṣīn), توتياء (tūtiyāʾ), زنك (zink)
Armenian: ցինկ (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)
Catalan: zinc
Central Melanau: zink
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鋅 (zh), 锌 (zh) (xīn)
Cornish: synk
Czech: zinek (cs) m
Danish: zink c, n
Dutch: zink (nl) n
Esperanto: zinko (eo)
Estonian: tsink
Faroese: sink
Finnish: sinkki (fi)
French: zinc (fr) m
Friulian: zinc
Galician: cinc (gl)
Georgian: თუთია (t’ut’ia)
German: Zink (de) n
Greek: ψευδάργυρος (el) m (psevdárgyros)
Hebrew: אבץ (he) m (avats)
Hindi: जस्ता 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)
Korean: 아연 (ko) (ayeon) (亞鉛 (ko))
Latvian: cinks m
Lithuanian: cinkas (lt)
Lojban: zinki
Luxembourgish: Zénk
Macedonian: цинк m (cink)
Malay: zink, seng, timah sari, ayan
Malayalam: നാകം (ml) (naakam), വെളുത്തീയം (ml) (veLutheeyam)
Maltese: żingu m
Manx: shinc m, meain ghorrym f
Maori: konutea, tingiki
Mongolian: цайр (tsajr)
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: цинк m

Roman: cink m
Slovak: zinok m
Slovene: cink (sl) m
Spanish: zinc (es) m, cinc (es) m
Swedish: zink (sv) n
Tajik: руҳ (ruh)
Tamil: நாகம் (ta) (nākam)
Thai: สังกะสี (th) (sănggàsĕe)
Turkish: çinko (tr)
Ukrainian: цинк m (cynk)
Uzbek: rux
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, zinking or zincking, simple past and past participle zinced, 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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