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From Latin ferrum (“iron”).
ferrous (comparative more ferrous, superlative most ferrous)
- Of or containing iron.
- Synonyms: ferric, siderous
- ferrous metals; ferrous scrap
- (chemistry) Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of +2.
- Coordinate terms: ferric (+3), ferryl (+4)
- Of an element: iron, or in certain ways similar to iron. (Said mainly of iron group elements, in any sense of that term.)
- ferrous metals
of or containing iron
- Altai:
- Southern Altai: темирлӱ (temirlü)
- Arabic: حَدِيدِيّ m (ḥadīdiyy)
- Armenian: երկաթյա (hy) (erkatʻya), երկաթե (hy) (erkatʻe)
- Bashkir: тимер (timer)
- Breton: houarn (br), houarnek (br)
- Bulgarian: желе́зен (bg) m (želézen)
- Catalan: ferrós
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鐵製的 / 铁制的
- Danish: jern-
- Dutch: ijzeren (nl)
- Faroese: jarn-
- Finnish: rautainen (fi)
- French: ferreux (fr) m
- German: eisern (de), eisenhaltig (de)
- Greek: σιδερένιος (el) m (siderénios)
- Ido: fera (io)
- Interlingua: ferree
- Irish: iarnaí, iarnda, iarnúil
- Italian: ferreo (it), ferroso (it), ferrico (it)
- Japanese: 鉄 (ja) (てつ, tetsu)
- Latin: ferreus
- Latvian: dzelzs-
- Lithuanian: geležinis
- Macedonian: железен m (železen)
- Malay: ferus
- Māori: rino, whairino
- Norwegian: jern-, jernholdig
- Polish: żelazny (pl) m
- Portuguese: férreo (pt), ferroso
- Russian: желе́зный (ru) (želéznyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: željezan (sh), železan (sh)
- Slovak: železný (sk)
- Spanish: férreo (es), férrico (es), ferroso (es)
- Swedish: järn-
- Ukrainian: залі́зний (zalíznyj)
- Vilamovian: ȧjzera
- Welsh: haearnaidd (cy)
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