zinc

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Zinc cube, fragment and dendrite.

Etymology

From German Zink, related to Zinke (“point, prong”), from Old High German zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-Germanic *tinduz, *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- (“tooth, projection”), see also Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne (“tooth of a rake”), Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”).

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
• Arabic: خارصين m (xāraṣīn), توتياء (tūtiyāʾ), زنك (zink)
• Armenian: ցինկ (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)
• Catalan: zinc
• Central Melanau: zink
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋅 (zh), 锌 (zh) (xīn)

• Cornish: synk
• Czech: zinek (cs) m
• Danish: zink c, n
• Dutch: zink (nl) n
• Esperanto: zinko (eo)
• Estonian: tsink
• Faroese: sink
• Finnish: sinkki (fi)
• French: zinc (fr) m
• Friulian: zinc
• Galician: cinc (gl)
• Georgian: თუთია (t’ut’ia)
• German: Zink (de) n
• Greek: ψευδάργυρος (el) m (psevdárgyros)
• Hebrew: אבץ (he) m (avats)
• Hindi: जस्ता 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)
• Korean: 아연 (ko) (ayeon) (亞鉛 (ko))
• Latvian: cinks m
• Lithuanian: cinkas (lt)
• Lojban: zinki
• Luxembourgish: Zénk
• Macedonian: цинк m (cink)
• Malay: zink, seng, timah sari, ayan
• Malayalam: നാകം (ml) (naakam), വെളുത്തീയം (ml) (veLutheeyam)
• Maltese: żingu m
• Manx: shinc m, meain ghorrym f
• Maori: konutea, tingiki
• Mongolian: цайр (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 m

• Slovak: zinok m
• Slovene: cink (sl) m
• Spanish: zinc (es) m, cinc (es) m
• Swedish: zink (sv) n
• Tajik: руҳ (ruh)
• Tamil: நாகம் (ta) (nākam)
• Thai: สังกะสี (th) (sănggàsĕe)
• Turkish: çinko (tr)
• Ukrainian: цинк m (cynk)
• Uzbek: rux

  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, zinking or zincking, simple past and past participle zinced, 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

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Translations to be checked

• French: zinguer (fr)

• Polish: cynkować

Anagrams

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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

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Spanish

Noun

zinc m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of cinc.