halogen

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• hălʹə-jən
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• /ˈhæl.ə.d͡ʒən/
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• /ˈheɪ.lə.d͡ʒən/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AE1 L AH0 JH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt" or "sea”) + γεν- (gen-), "to produce" (coined by Berzelius in 1842). By surface analysis, halo- (“salt”) + -gen (“forming”).

47 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: halogeen — any element of group 17
• Armenian: հալոգեն (halogen) — any element of group 17
• Asturian: halóxenu — any element of group 17
• Bulgarian: халоген (halogen) — any element of group 17
• Catalan: halogen — any element of group 17
• Chinese Cantonese: 鹵素 /卤素 (lou5 sou3) — any element of group 17
• Chinese Cantonese: 鹵族 /卤族 (lou5 zuk6) — any element of group 17
• Eastern Min Chinese: 鹵素 /卤素 (lū-só) — any element of group 17
• Chinese: 鹵素 /卤素 (ló͘-sò͘) — any element of group 17
• Chinese Mandarin: 鹵素 /卤素 (lǔsù) — any element of group 17
• Chinese Mandarin: 鹵族 /卤族 (lǔzú) — any element of group 17
• Czech: halogen — any element of group 17
• Dutch: halogeen — any element of group 17
• Esperanto: halogeno — any element of group 17
• Estonian: halogeen — any element of group 17
• Finnish: halogeeni — any element of group 17
• French: halogène — any element of group 17
• Galician: halóxeno — any element of group 17
• German: Halogen — any element of group 17
• Greek: αλογόνο (alogóno) — any element of group 17
• Hungarian: halogén — any element of group 17
• Ido: halogeno — any element of group 17
• Italian: alogeno — any element of group 17
• Japanese: ハロゲン (harogen) — any element of group 17
• Kazakh: галоген (galogen) — any element of group 17
• Khmer: ហាឡូហ្សែន (haalouzaen) — any element of group 17
• Korean: 할로젠 (hallojen) — any element of group 17
• Korean: 할로겐 (hallogen) — any element of group 17
• Latin: halogenus — any element of group 17
• Latvian: halogēni — any element of group 17
• Latvian: sāļraži — any element of group 17
• Māori: whāpāhare — any element of group 17
• Norwegian Bokmål: halogen — any element of group 17
• Norwegian Nynorsk: halogen — any element of group 17
• Persian: هالوژن (hâložen) — any element of group 17
• Polish: halogen — any element of group 17
• Polish: fluorowiec — any element of group 17
• Portuguese: halogênio — any element of group 17
• Romanian: halogen — any element of group 17
• Russian: галоге́н (galogén) — any element of group 17
• Spanish: halógeno — any element of group 17
• Thai: แฮโลเจน — any element of group 17
• Turkish: halojen — any element of group 17
• Ukrainian: галоґе́н (halogén) — any element of group 17
• Ukrainian: галоге́н (halohén) — any element of group 17
• Vietnamese: halôgen — any element of group 17
• Māori: kōnakonako — a light fixture