zinc

English

Chemical element
Zn	Previous: copper (Cu)
	Next: gallium (Ga)

Zinc cube, fragment and dendrite.

Etymology

From German Zink, related to Zinke (“point, prong”), from Middle High German zinke, from Old High German zinko (“prong, tine”), allied to zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Old English tind (“tine, prong”), Middle Low German tinde, Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”). See also Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne (“tooth of a rake”), More at tine.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /zɪŋk/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Noun

zinc (uncountable)

2. a chemical element (symbol Zn) with an atomic number of 30.

Derived terms

Element

• Berne Zinc tablet
• butter of zinc
• cadmium zinc telluride
• platinum-zinc
• sulfate of zinc, sulphate of zinc
• uranyl zinc acetate
• zinc acetate
• zinc-air
• zinc alum
• zinc amide
• zincate
• zinc blende
• zinc-bloom
• zinc chills
• zinc chloride

• zinc chromate
• zinc chromate hydroxide
• zinc chrome
• zinc dichloride
• zinc dust
• zinced, zincked
• zinc finger
• zinc foil
• zinc gluconate
• zinc gluconate glycine
• zinc gray, zinc grey
• zinc green
• zinc hydroxide
• zincian

• zincic, zinckic
• zinciferous, zinckiferous, zinkiferous
• zincification, zinckification
• zincify, zinckify
• zincing, zincking
• zinc iron
• zincite, zinckite, zinkite
• zinc methyl
• zinco-
• zincography
• zincoid
• zinc oxide
• zinc powder
• zinc pyrithione

• zinc roof
• zinc selenide
• zinc shakes
• zinc spar
• zinc spinel
• zinc sponge
• zinc stearate
• zinc sulfide, zinc sulphide
• zinc sulphate
• zinc uranyl acetate
• zinc white
• zinc yellow
• zincy, zincky, zinky
• zineb

Related terms

• zincode
• zincous

Translations

element

• Afrikaans: sink (af)
• Albanian: zink (sq)
• Arabic: خَارَصِين‎‎ m (ḵāraṣīn), تُوتِيَاء‎‎ (tūtiyāʾ), زِنْك‎‎ (zink)
• Armenian: ցինկ (hy) (cʿink)
• Asturian: cinc (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: sink (az)
• Basque: zinka
• Belarusian: цынк m (cynk)
• Bengali: দস্তা (dôśta)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: aqzdir m

• Breton: zink (br) m
• Bulgarian: цинк m (cink)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: zinc (ca)
• Central Melanau: zink
• Cherokee: ᎦᏙᎤᎳᏂ (gadoulani)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋅 (zh), 锌 (zh) (xīn)

• Cornish: synk
• Czech: zinek (cs) m
• Danish: zink (da) c, n
• Dutch: zink (nl) n
• Esperanto: zinko (eo)
• Estonian: tsink (et)
• Faroese: sink
• Finnish: sinkki (fi)
• French: zinc (fr) m
• Friulian: zinc
• Galician: cinc (gl)
• Georgian: თუთია (tutia)
• German: Zink (de) n
• Greek: ψευδάργυρος (el) m (psevdárgyros)
• Greenlandic: zinki
• Hebrew: אבץ‎‎ (he) m (avats)
• Hindi: जस्ता (hi) m (jastā)
• Hungarian: cink (hu)
• Icelandic: sink (is)
• Ido: zinko (io)
• Indonesian: seng (id)
• Interlingua: zinc
• Irish: sinc (ga)
• Italian: zinco (it) m
• Japanese: 亜鉛 (ja) (あえん, aen)
• Kashubian: cynk
• Kazakh: мырыш (kk) (mırış)
• Khmer: ស័ង្កសី (km) (saŋka’səy)

• Korean: 아연 (ko) (ayeon) (亞鉛 (ko))
• Latin: zincum (la)
• Latvian: cinks m
• Lingala: zɛ́nki class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: cinkas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Zénk
• Macedonian: цинк m (cink)
• Malay: zink (ms), seng, timah sari, ayan
• Malayalam: നാകം (ml) (nākaṃ), വെളുത്തീയം (ml) (veḷuttīyaṃ)
• Maltese: żingu m
• Manx: shinc m, meain ghorrym f
• Maori: konutea, tingiki
• Mongolian: цайр (mn) (tsajr), цинк (tsink)
• Navajo: béésh dootłʼizh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sink (no) m, n

  Nynorsk: sink (nn) m, n

• Persian: روی‎‎ (fa) (ruy)
• Polish: cynk (pl) m
• Portuguese: zinco (pt) m
• Romanian: zinc (ro) n
• Russian: цинк (ru) m (cink)
• Scottish Gaelic: sinc
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ци̏нк m

  Roman: cȉnk (sh) m

• Slovak: zinok (sk) m
• Slovene: cink (sl) m
• Spanish: zinc (es) m, cinc (es) m
• Swahili: zinki class 9/10
• Swedish: zink (sv) n
• Tagalog: singk
• Tajik: руҳ (ruh)
• Tamil: நாகம் (ta) (nākam)
• Thai: สังกะสี (th) (sǎng-gà-sǐi)
• Tibetan: ཏི་ཚ (ti tsha)
• Turkish: çinko (tr)
• Ukrainian: цинк m (cynk)
• Uzbek: rux (uz)

  Cyrillic: рух

• Vietnamese: kẽm (vi)
• Volapük: zinkin (vo)
• Welsh: zinc (cy)
• West Frisian: sink n
• Yiddish: צינק‎‎ n (tsink)

See also

other terms of interest

• blende
• brass
• calamine

• franklinite
• German silver
• nickelled silver

• smithsonite
• solder
• spelter

• sphalerite
• typewriter metal

Verb

zinc (third-person singular simple present zincs, present participle zincing or zinking or zincking, simple past and past participle zinced or zinked or zincked)

1. (rare) To electroplate with zinc.
2. (rare) To coat with sunblock incorporating zinc oxide.

Synonyms

• (electroplate with zinc): galvanize

Translations

electroplate with zinc

coat with sunblock incorporating zinc oxide

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: zinguer (fr)
• Polish: cynkować

• Russian: оцинковать (ru) (ocinkovatʹ)

Anagrams

• ICZN

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Catalan

Chemical element
Zn	Previous: coure (Cu)
	Next: gal·li (Ga)

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈziŋk/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈziŋ/

Noun

zinc m (uncountable)

1. zinc

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French

Etymology

From German Zink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɛ̃ɡ/

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Noun

zinc m (plural zincs)

1. (metallurgy, chemistry) zinc
2. (informal) counter (in a bar, café, etc), bar
3. (informal) small plane

Related terms

• zingage
• zingueur
• zinguer
• dézinguer

Further reading

• “zinc” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Romanian

Chemical element
Zn	Previous: cupru (Cu)
	Next: galiu (Ga)

Etymology

From French zinc, from German Zink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zink/

Noun

zinc n (uncountable)

1. zinc (metal)

References

• zinc in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language), 2004-2018

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Spanish

Noun

zinc m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of cinc