zinc

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Chemical element
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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 Old High German 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/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Noun

zinc ‎(uncountable)

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

Derived terms

element

Berne Zinc tablet butter of zinc cadmium zinc telluride copper-zinc platinum-zinc sulfate of zinc, sulphate of zinc uranyl zinc acetate zinc-air zinc alum zinc amide zinc acetate 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 uranyl acetate zinc white zinc yellow zincy, zincky, zinky zineb

Related terms

• zincode
• zincous

Translations

Element

• Afrikaans: sink
• Albanian: zink (sq)
• Arabic: خَارَصِين m ‎(ḵāraṣīn), تُوتِيَاء ‎(tūtiyāʾ), زِنْك ‎(zink)
• Armenian: ցինկ (hy) ‎(cʿink)
• Asturian: cinc (ast) m
• Azeri: sink (az)
• Basque: zinka
• Belarusian: цынк m ‎(cynk)
• Bengali: দস্তা ‎(dôsta)
• 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)
• 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
• Lithuanian: cinkas (lt)
• Lojban: zinki
• Luxembourgish: Zénk
• Macedonian: цинк m ‎(cink)
• Malay: zink, 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)
• 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: цинк m

  Roman: cink (sh) m

• Slovak: zinok (sk) m
• Slovene: cink (sl) m
• Spanish: zinc (es) m, cinc (es) m
• Swedish: zink (sv) n
• Tagalog: singk
• Tajik: руҳ ‎(ruh)
• Tamil: நாகம் (ta) ‎(nākam)
• Thai: สังกะสี (th) ‎(sănggàsĕe)
• 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 Help:How to check 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)

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

External links

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

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Romanian

Wikipedia ^ro

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), 2004-2016

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Spanish

Noun

zinc m ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of cinc