cink

Hungarian

Chemical element
Zn
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Next: gallium (Ga)

Etymology

From German Zink, from Latin zincum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡siŋk]
• Hyphenation: cink
• Rhymes: -iŋk

Noun

cink (usually uncountable, plural cinkek)

1. zinc (chemical element)

   Synonym: horgany

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	cink	cinkek
accusative	cinket	cinkeket
dative	cinknek	cinkeknek
instrumental	cinkkel	cinkekkel
causal-final	cinkért	cinkekért
translative	cinkké	cinkekké
terminative	cinkig	cinkekig
essive-formal	cinkként	cinkekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	cinkben	cinkekben
superessive	cinken	cinkeken
adessive	cinknél	cinkeknél
illative	cinkbe	cinkekbe
sublative	cinkre	cinkekre
allative	cinkhez	cinkekhez
elative	cinkből	cinkekből
delative	cinkről	cinkekről
ablative	cinktől	cinkektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	cinké	cinkeké
non-attributive possessive - plural	cinkéi	cinkekéi

Possessive forms of cink
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	cinkem	cinkjeim
2nd person sing.	cinked	cinkjeid
3rd person sing.	cinkje	cinkjei
1st person plural	cinkünk	cinkjeink
2nd person plural	cinketek	cinkjeitek
3rd person plural	cinkjük	cinkjeik

Derived terms

Compound words

• cink-klorid

 

Further reading

• cink in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• cink in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Zink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sînk/

Noun

cȉnk m (Cyrillic spelling ци̏нк)

1. (uncountable) zinc

Declension

Declension of cink

	singular
nominative	cink
genitive	cinka
dative	cinku
accusative	cink
vocative	cinče
locative	cinku
instrumental	cinkom

Slovene

Chemical element
Zn
Previous: báker (Cu)
Next: gálij (Ga)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡síːnk/

Noun

cȋnk m inan

1. zinc

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	cínk
genitive	cínka
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	cínk
genitive (rodȋlnik)	—
dative (dajȃlnik)	—
accusative (tožȋlnik)	—
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	cínku
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	cínkom

Further reading

• “cink”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran