noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
/ˈɪŋɡət/
Southern-England:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
CMU ARPABET:IH1 NG G AH0 T
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
verb
Meaning 2
To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: metal bar, block of metal
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: block
Narrower terms: bullion, pig
History
Etymology
From Middle English ingot (“mould for casting metal”), of uncertain origin. In all likelihood the same word as Middle French lingot, but the direction of borrowing is hard to establish, particularly as the word appears simultaneously (ca. 1390) in both languages. * Assuming English origin, from Old English ingoten, past participle of inġēotan (“to pour in”), derived from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to pour”, whence archaic English yote). Compare Old English ingyte (“a pouring-in, infusion”), which is formed with a related noun (Proto-Germanic *gutiz, whence German Guss, Swedish göt). Also related with English gote, goit. * Assuming French origin, from a diminutive of Old Occitan lenga (“tongue”), so called because of the elongated form. (The presence or absence of initial l- has to do, in any case, with rebracketing of the French definite article.)
Across languages
Translations
62 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Akkadian:
gubāru
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Arabic:
سبيكة
(sabīka)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Azerbaijani:
külçə
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Belarusian:
злітак
(zlitak)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Bulgarian:
слитък
(slitǎk)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Bulgarian:
кюлче
(kjulče)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Catalan:
lingot
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Chinese Mandarin:
錠 /锭
(dìng)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Chinese Mandarin:
鑄塊 /铸块
(zhùkuài)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Czech:
ingot
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Danish:
barre
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Dutch:
baar
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Dutch:
staaf
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Esperanto:
ingoto
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Estonian:
kang
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Finnish:
metalliharkko
— solid block of more or less pure metal
French:
lingot
— solid block of more or less pure metal
German:
Barren
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Greek:
πλίνθωμα
(plínthoma)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Ancient Greek:
σόλος
(sólos)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Ancient Greek:
πλίνθος
(plínthos)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Hebrew:
מְטִיל
(metíl)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Hungarian:
rúd
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Hungarian:
fémrúd
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Icelandic:
málmstöng
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Ido:
lingoto
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Indonesian:
batangan
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Indonesian:
ingot
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Irish:
barra
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Irish:
uinge
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Italian:
lingotto
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Japanese:
インゴット
(ingotto)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Japanese:
地金
(jigane)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Kazakh:
құймакесек
(qūimakesek)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Korean:
주괴
(jugoe)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Latin:
later
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Lithuanian:
liejinys
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Malay:
jongkong
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Nogai:
куйма
(kuyma)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Occitan:
lingòt
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Persian:
شمش
(šemš)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Polish:
sztaba
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Polish:
sztabka
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Portuguese:
lingote
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Romanian:
lingou
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Russian:
сли́ток
(slítok)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Russian:
чу́шка
(čúška)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Russian:
болва́нка
(bolvánka)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Russian:
брусо́к
(brusók)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Serbo-Croatian:
ingot
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Sicilian:
lingottu
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Spanish:
lingote
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Spanish:
tocho
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Swedish:
tacka
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Telugu:
అచ్చు
(accu)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Turkish:
külçe
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Ottoman Turkish:
كولچه
(külçe)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Ukrainian:
зли́ток
(zlýtok)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Ukrainian:
зли́вок
(zlývok)
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Uzbek:
yombi
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Vietnamese:
thỏi
— solid block of more or less pure metal
Yakut:
кутуу
(kutuu)
— solid block of more or less pure metal