Zirkon

German

Etymology

Coined by German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner in the early 1780s on the basis of Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /t͡sɪrˈkoːn/
• Rhymes: -oːn

Noun

Zirkon m (strong, genitive Zirkons, plural Zirkone)

1. zircon

Declension

Declension of Zirkon [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Zirkon	die	Zirkone
genitive	eines	des	Zirkons	der	Zirkone
dative	einem	dem	Zirkon	den	Zirkonen
accusative	einen	den	Zirkon	die	Zirkone

Related terms

• Zirkonium

Descendants

• → 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:

  Cyrillic script: цѝрко̄н

  Latin script: cìrkōn

• → Slovak: zirkón
• → Slovene: cirkon
• → Spanish: circón
• → Swedish: zirkon
• → Tagalog: sirkon
• → Ukrainian: цирко́н (cyrkón)

Further reading

• “Zirkon”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Zirkon” in Duden online