English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ferrum (“iron”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
ferrous (comparative more ferrous, superlative most ferrous)
- Of or containing iron.
- (chemistry) Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of 2.
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Translations
of or containing iron
- 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, 铁制的
- Danish: jern-
- Dutch: ijzeren (nl)
- Faroese: jarn-
- Finnish: rautainen (fi)
- French: ferreux (fr) m
- German: eisern (de)
- Greek: σιδερένιος (el) m (siderénios)
- Ido: fera (io)
- Interlingua: ferree
- Irish: iarnaí, iarnda, iarnúil
- Italian: ferreo (it), ferroso (it), ferrico (it)
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Japanese: 鉄 (ja) (てつ, tetsu)
- Latin: ferreus
- Latvian: dzelzs-
- Lithuanian: geležinis
- Macedonian: железен m (železen)
- Malay: ferus
- Maori: rino
- Norwegian: jern-, jernholdig
- Polish: żelazny (pl) m
- Portuguese: férreo (pt), ferroso
- Russian: желе́зный (ru) (želéznyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: željezan (sh), železan (sh)
- Slovak: železný (sk)
- Southern Altai: темирлӱ (temirlü)
- Spanish: férreo (es)
- Swedish: järn-
- Ukrainian: залі́зний (zalíznyj)
- Vilamovian: ȧjzera
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