helium

See also Helium, and hélium

English

Wikipedia

Chemical element
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Etymology

From New Latin helium, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hēlios, “sun”) (because its presence was first theorised in the sun's atmosphere).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hē'lēəm, IPA: /ˈhiːlɪəm/, X-SAMPA: /"hi:li@m/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: he‧li‧um

Noun

helium (countable and uncountable; plural heliums)

1. (uncountable) A colorless and inert gas, and the second lightest chemical element (symbol He) with an atomic number of 2 and atomic weight of 4.002602.
2. (countable) A form or sample of the element.

Derived terms

terms derived from helium

heliair heliox helium-3 helium-4 helium burning helium dating helium flash

helium fusion helium speech helium star helium variable liquid helium orthohelium parahelium

Related terms

• helio-
• Helios

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: helium (af)
• Albanian: helium (sq)
• Arabic: هيليوم (ar) (hílyum) m
• Armenian: հելիում (hy) (helium) 
• Asturian: heliu (ast)
• Basque: helioa (eu)
• Belarusian: гелій (be) (gelij) m 
• Bengali: হিলিয়াম (bn)
• Breton: heliom (br) m
• Bulgarian: хелий (bg) (hélij) m 
• Catalan: heli (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氦

  Mandarin: 氦 (cmn) (hài)

  Min Nan: goân-sò (nan)

  Literary Chinese: 氦

• Chuvash: гели
• Cornish: helyum (kw)
• Corsican: eliu (co)
• Czech: helium (cs) n
• Danish: helium (da)
• Dutch: helium (nl) n
• Esperanto: heliumo (eo), helio (eo)
• Estonian: heelium (et)
• Faroese: helium (fo)
• Finnish: helium (fi)
• West Flemish: helium
• French: hélium (fr) m
• Friulian: eli m
• Galician: helio (gl) m
• Georgian: ჰელიუმი (ka) (heliumi) 
• German: Helium (de) n
• Greek: ήλιο (el) (ílio) n 
• Gujarati: હીલિયમ (gu)
• Haitian Creole: elyòm
• Hawaiian: hiliuma
• Hebrew: הליום (he) (helyum) m
• Hindi: यानाति (hi) (yaanaati)
• Hungarian: hélium (hu)
• Icelandic: helín (is), helíum (is)
• Ido: helio (io)
• Indonesian: helium (id)
• Interlingua: helium (ia)
• Irish: héiliam (ga)
• Italian: elio (it) m
• Japanese: ヘリウム (ja) (heriumu)
• Javanese: helium (jv)
• Kannada: ಹೀಲಿಯಮ್ (kn)
• Kashubian: (él)
• Kazakh: гелий (kk) (gelii) 
• Khmer: សូរ្យូម (km) (so ryum), អេល្យ៉ូម (km) (ei lyom)
• Komi: гелий
• Korean: 헬륨 (ko) (hellyum)
• Kurdish: hêlyûm (ku)

• Kölsch: Helium
• Latin: helium (la)
• Latvian: hēlijs (lv) m
• Limburgish: helium (li)
• Lingala: eliyúmu (ln)
• Lithuanian: helis (lt)
• Lojban: solnavni (jbo)
• Lombard: eli m
• Low German: helium (nds)
• Luxembourgish: Helium (lb)
• Macedonian: хелиум (mk) (hélium) m
• Malay: helium (ms)
• Malayalam: ഹീലിയം (ml)
• Maltese: ilju (mt) m
• Manx: hailium (gv)
• Maori: haumāmā (mi)
• Marathi: हेलियम (mr)
• Mongolian: гели (mn) (geli) 
• Nahuatl: tōnatiuyoh (nah)
• Navajo: níłchʼi ászólí
• Norwegian: helium (no)

  Nynorsk: helium (nn)

• Novial: helium
• Occitan: èli (oc) m
• Persian: هلیم (fa)
• Polish: hel (pl) m
• Portuguese: hélio (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਹੀਲਿਆਮ (pa)
• Quechua: ilyu (qu), helio (qu)
• Romanian: heliu (ro) n
• Russian: гелий (ru) (gélij) m 
• Sanskrit: हीलियम (sa)
• Scottish Gaelic: hèiliam (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хелијум (sh) m, хелиј (sh) m

  Roman: helijum (sh) m, helij (sh) m

• Slovak: hélium (sk) n
• Slovene: helij (sl) m
• Spanish: helio (es) m
• Sundanese: hélium (su)
• Swahili: heli (sw)
• Swedish: helium (sv) n
• Tajik: гелий (tg) (geliy)
• Tamil: ஹீலியம் (ta), பரிதியம் (ta) (paridhiyam)
• Thai: ฮีเลียม (th) (heeliam)
• Turkish: helyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: гелій (uk) (hélij) m 
• Upper Sorbian: helium (hsb)
• Uzbek: гелий (uz) (geliy)
• Vietnamese: heli (vi), hêli (vi)
• Volapük: helin (vo)
• Welsh: heliwm (cy)
• West Frisian: helium (fy)
• Yiddish: העליום (yi) (helium) n

Synonyms

• E939 when used as a packaging gas

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Czech

Noun

helium n

1. helium

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Chemical element
He	Previous: waterstof (H)
	Next: lithium (Li)

Pronunciation

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Noun

helium n (uncountable)

1. helium

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Noun

element
He
	Previous:	vety
	Next:	litium

helium

1. helium

Declension

Declension of helium (type risti) singular plural nominative helium heliumit genitive heliumin heliumien partitive heliumia heliumeja accusative helium heliumin heliumit inessive heliumissa heliumeissa elative heliumista heliumeista illative heliumiin heliumeihin adessive heliumilla heliumeilla ablative heliumilta heliumeilta allative heliumille heliumeille essive heliumina heliumeina translative heliumiksi heliumeiksi instructive – heliumein abessive heliumitta heliumeitta comitative – heliumeineen

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Noun

hēlium (genitive hēliī); n, second declension

1. helium

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	hēlium	hēlia
genitive	hēliī	hēliōrum
dative	hēliō	hēliīs
accusative	hēlium	hēlia
ablative	hēliō	hēliīs
vocative	hēlium	hēlia

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈheː˨ʎɔ˧m]

Noun

helium n

1. (uncountable) helium
2. A part of helium

Inflection

Declension of helium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	helium	helia	helieke	heliekes
Genitive	heliums	helia	heliekes	heliekes
Locative	helieës	helieëser	helieëske	helieëskes
Dative¹	heliumme	—	helieke	—
Accusative¹	helium	—	helieke	—

¹ Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Malay

Wikipedia ^ms

Chemical element
He	Previous: hidrogen (H)
	Next: litium (Li)

Etymology

From English helium, from New Latin helium, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hēlios).

Alternative forms

• هيليوم

Pronunciation

• IPA: /heliom/
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

helium (Jawi spelling هيليوم)

1. helium (chemical element)

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈheːlɪɵm/

Noun

helium n

1. helium

Declension

Declension of helium

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	helium	heliumet
genitive	heliums	heliumets