lanthanum

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From Ancient Greek λανθάνω (lanthánō, “to escape notice”) + -um (“a chemical element”), because it had gone long undetected in mineral ores.

77 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: lantaan — metallic element
• Albanian: lantan — metallic element
• Arabic: لَانْثَانُوم (lānṯānūm) — metallic element
• Arabic: لَانْتَانُوم (lāntānūm) — metallic element
• Arabic: لَنْثَنُوم (lanṯanūm) — metallic element
• Arabic: لَنْتَنُوم (lantanūm) — metallic element
• Armenian: լանթան (lantʻan) — metallic element
• Asturian: lantanu — metallic element
• Basque: lantanoa — metallic element
• Belarusian: ланта́н (lantán) — metallic element
• Breton: lantan — metallic element
• Bulgarian: ланта́н (lantán) — metallic element
• Catalan: lantani — metallic element
• Chinese Mandarin: 鑭 /镧 (làn) — metallic element
• Cornish: lanthanum — metallic element
• Czech: lanthan — metallic element
• Danish: lanthan — metallic element
• Dutch: lanthaan — metallic element
• Dutch: lanthanium — metallic element
• Esperanto: lantano — metallic element
• Estonian: lantaan — metallic element
• Faroese: lantan — metallic element
• Finnish: lantaani — metallic element
• French: lanthane — metallic element
• West-Frisian: lanthaan — metallic element
• Friulian: lantani — metallic element
• Galician: lantano — metallic element
• Georgian: ლანთანი (lantani) — metallic element
• German: Lanthan — metallic element
• Greek: λανθάνιο (lanthánio) — metallic element
• Hebrew: לנתן (lantán) — metallic element
• Hindi: सुजारला (sujārlā) — metallic element
• Hungarian: lantán — metallic element
• Icelandic: lanþan — metallic element
• Ido: lantano — metallic element
• Irish: lantainam — metallic element
• Italian: lantanio — metallic element
• Japanese: ランタン (rantan) — metallic element
• Kashubian: lantón — metallic element
• Kazakh: лантан (lantan) — metallic element
• Khmer: ឡង់តាន (lɑngtaan) — metallic element
• Korean: 란탄 (rantan) — metallic element
• Korean: 란타늄 (rantanyum) — metallic element
• Korean: 란타넘 (rantaneom) — metallic element
• Latin: lanthanum — metallic element
• Latvian: lantāns — metallic element
• Lithuanian: lantanas — metallic element
• Luxembourgish: Lanthan — metallic element
• Macedonian: ланта́н (lantán) — metallic element
• Malay: lantanum — metallic element
• Maltese: lantanum — metallic element
• Manx: lantanum — metallic element
• Mongolian: лантан (lantan) — metallic element
• Norwegian: lantan — metallic element
• Occitan: lantani — metallic element
• Polish: lantan — metallic element
• Portuguese: lantânio — metallic element
• Romanian: lantan — metallic element
• Russian: ланта́н (lantán) — metallic element
• Scottish Gaelic: lantanam — metallic element
• Serbo-Croatian: лантан — metallic element
• Serbo-Croatian: lantan — metallic element
• Slovak: lantán — metallic element
• Slovene: lantan — metallic element
• Spanish: lantano — metallic element
• Swedish: lantan — metallic element
• Tagalog: lantano — metallic element
• Tajik: lantan — metallic element
• Tamil: மாய்மம் (māymam) — metallic element
• Thai: แลนทานัม (lɛɛn-taa-nâm) — metallic element
• Turkish: lantan — metallic element
• Ukrainian: ланта́н (lantán) — metallic element
• Uzbek: lantan — metallic element
• Uzbek: лантан (lantan) — metallic element
• Vietnamese: lantan — metallic element
• Volapük: lantanin — metallic element
• Welsh: lanthanwm — metallic element