erbium

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Borrowed from New Latin erbium; itself from Swedish Ytterby (the name of the town where the element was discovered) + -ium. Coined by Swedish chemist and mineralogist Carl Gustaf Mosander in 1843. Doublet of terbium, ytterbium, and yttrium.

71 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: erbium — chemical element
• Albanian: erbium — chemical element
• Arabic: إِرْبِيُوم (ʔirbiyūm) — chemical element
• Armenian: էրբիում (ērbium) — chemical element
• Asturian: erbiu — chemical element
• Basque: erbioa — chemical element
• Belarusian: э́рбій (érbij) — chemical element
• Breton: erbiom — chemical element
• Bulgarian: е́рбий (érbij) — chemical element
• Catalan: erbi — chemical element
• Chinese Mandarin: 鉺 /铒 (ěr) — chemical element
• Cornish: erbyum — chemical element
• Czech: erbium — chemical element
• Danish: erbium — chemical element
• Dutch: erbium — chemical element
• Esperanto: erbio — chemical element
• Estonian: erbium — chemical element
• Faroese: erbium — chemical element
• Finnish: erbium — chemical element
• French: erbium — chemical element
• West-Frisian: erbium — chemical element
• Friulian: erbi — chemical element
• Galician: erbio — chemical element
• Georgian: ერბიუმი (erbiumi) — chemical element
• German: Erbium — chemical element
• Greek: έρβιο (érvio) — chemical element
• Hebrew: ארביום (érbiyum) — chemical element
• Hindi: रक्तला (raktalā) — chemical element
• Hungarian: erbium — chemical element
• Icelandic: erbín — chemical element
• Irish: eirbiam — chemical element
• Italian: erbio — chemical element
• Japanese: エルビウム (erubiumu) — chemical element
• Kashubian: érb — chemical element
• Kazakh: эрбий (érbii) — chemical element
• Khmer: អែប្យូម (ʼaepyoum) — chemical element
• Korean: 에르븀 (ereubyum) — chemical element
• Korean: 어븀 (eobyum) — chemical element
• Latin: erbium — chemical element
• Latvian: erbijs — chemical element
• Lithuanian: erbis — chemical element
• Luxembourgish: Erbium — chemical element
• Macedonian: ербиум (erbium) — chemical element
• Malay: erbium — chemical element
• Maltese: erbjum — chemical element
• Manx: erbium — chemical element
• Mongolian: эрби (erbi) — chemical element
• Norwegian: erbium — chemical element
• Polish: erb — chemical element
• Portuguese: érbio — chemical element
• Romanian: erbiu — chemical element
• Russian: э́рбий (érbij) — chemical element
• Scottish Gaelic: eirbiam — chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: ербиj — chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: ербиjум — chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: erbij — chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: erbijum — chemical element
• Slovak: erbium — chemical element
• Slovene: erbij — chemical element
• Spanish: erbio — chemical element
• Swedish: erbium — chemical element
• Tajik: Эрбий (Erbiy) — chemical element
• Tamil: எல்லிரும்பு (ellirumpu) — chemical element
• Thai: เออร์เบียม (əə-bîiam) — chemical element
• Turkish: erbiyum — chemical element
• Ukrainian: е́рбій (érbij) — chemical element
• Uzbek: эрбий (erbiy) — chemical element
• Uzbek: erbiy — chemical element
• Vietnamese: eribi — chemical element
• Volapük: lerbin — chemical element
• Welsh: erbiwm — chemical element