magnesium

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From New Latin magnēsium, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsía, “Magnesia”), a region in Thessaly. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy, as a modification of his original suggestion, magnium.

110 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: magnesium — chemical element
• Albanian: magneziumi — chemical element
• Arabic: مَغْنِيسِيُوم (maḡnīsiyūm) — chemical element
• Armenian: մագնեզիում (magnezium) — chemical element
• Asturian: magnesiu — chemical element
• Azerbaijani: maqnezium — chemical element
• Basque: magnesioa — chemical element
• Belarusian: магній (mahnij) — chemical element
• Bengali: ম্যাগনেশিয়াম (mêgneśiẏam) — chemical element
• Breton: magneziom — chemical element
• Breton: magnesiom — chemical element
• Bulgarian: магне́зий (magnézij) — chemical element
• Catalan: magnesi — chemical element
• Cebuano: magnesium — chemical element
• Chinese Mandarin: 鎂 /镁 (měi) — chemical element
• Cornish: magnesiom — chemical element
• Corsican: magnesiu — chemical element
• Czech: hořčík — chemical element
• Danish: magnesium — chemical element
• Dhivehi: މެގްނީޒިއަމް (megnīziam̊) — chemical element
• Dutch: magnesium — chemical element
• Esperanto: magnezio — chemical element
• Estonian: magneesium — chemical element
• Faroese: magnesium — chemical element
• Finnish: magnesium — chemical element
• French: magnésium — chemical element
• West-Frisian: magnesium — chemical element
• Friulian: magnesi — chemical element
• Galician: magnesio — chemical element
• Georgian: მაგნიუმი (magniumi) — chemical element
• German: Magnesium — chemical element
• Greek: μαγνήσιο (magnísio) — chemical element
• Haitian Creole: manyezyòm — chemical element
• Hawaiian: makanekiuma — chemical element
• Hebrew: מגנזיום (magnezium) — chemical element
• Hindi: भ्राजातु (bhrājātu) — chemical element
• Hindi: मैग्नीसियम (maignīsiyam) — chemical element
• Hungarian: magnézium — chemical element
• Icelandic: magnesín — chemical element
• Icelandic: magnín — chemical element
• Icelandic: magníum — chemical element
• Icelandic: magnesíum — chemical element
• Ido: magnezo — chemical element
• Indonesian: magnesium — chemical element
• Interlingua: magnesium — chemical element
• Irish: maignéisiam — chemical element
• Italian: magnesio — chemical element
• Japanese: マグネシウム (maguneshiumu) — chemical element
• Japanese: 苦土素 (kudoso) — chemical element
• Javanese: magnesium — chemical element
• Kannada: ಮ್ಯಗ್ನೀಶಿಯಮ್ (myagnīśiyam) — chemical element
• Kashubian: magnéz — chemical element
• Kashubian: magnez — chemical element
• Kazakh: магний (magnii) — chemical element
• Khmer: ម៉ាញ៉េស៊ីយ៉ុម (maañeesiiyoom) — chemical element
• Khmer: ម៉ាញ៉េស្យូម (maañeesyoum) — chemical element
• Korean: 마그네슘 (mageunesyum) — chemical element
• Northern Kurdish: magnezyûm — chemical element
• Latin: magnesium — chemical element
• Latvian: magnijs — chemical element
• Lingala: manezu class 9a/10a — chemical element
• Lithuanian: magnis — chemical element
• Low German: Magnesium — chemical element
• Luxembourgish: Magnesium — chemical element
• Macedonian: магнезиум (magnezium) — chemical element
• Malay: magnesium — chemical element
• Malayalam: മഗ്നീഷ്യം (magnīṣyaṁ) — chemical element
• Maltese: manjeżju — chemical element
• Manx: magneeshym — chemical element
• Māori: konupora — chemical element
• Mongolian: магни (magni) — chemical element
• Mongolian: ᠮᠠᠭᠨᠢ (maɣni) — chemical element
• Navajo: béésh łikoní — chemical element
• Norwegian Bokmål: magnesium — chemical element
• Norwegian Nynorsk: magnesium — chemical element
• Occitan: magnèsi — chemical element
• Persian: منیزیم (manyaziyom) — chemical element
• Polish: magnez — chemical element
• Portuguese: magnésio — chemical element
• Punjabi: ਮੈਗਨੇਸ਼ਿਅਮ (maigneśiama) — chemical element
• Quechua: qunta q'illay — chemical element
• Romanian: magneziu — chemical element
• Russian: ма́гний (mágnij) — chemical element
• Scottish Gaelic: maignèisiam — chemical element
• Scottish Gaelic: magnesium — chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: магнезијум — chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: ма̀гне̄зиј — chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: magnezium — chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: màgnēzij — chemical element
• Sicilian: magnesiu — chemical element
• Slovak: horčík — chemical element
• Slovene: magnẹ̑zij — chemical element
• Spanish: magnesio — chemical element
• Swahili: magnesi — chemical element
• Swedish: magnesium — chemical element
• Tagalog: magnesyo — chemical element
• Tajik: магний (magniy) — chemical element
• Tamil: மக்னீசியம் (makṉīciyam) — chemical element
• Tamil: வல்லகுவம் (vallakuvam) — chemical element
• Thai: แมกนีเซียม (mɛ́k-nii-sîiam) — chemical element
• Tibetan: མེག་ནི་སི་ཡམ (meg ni si yam) — chemical element
• Turkish: magnezyum — chemical element
• Ukrainian: ма́гній (máhnij) — chemical element
• Ukrainian: ма́ґній (mágnij) — chemical element
• Urdu: میگنیشیم — chemical element
• Uyghur: ماگنىي (magniy) — chemical element
• Uzbek: magniy — chemical element
• Uzbek: магний (magniy) — chemical element
• Vietnamese: magiê — chemical element
• Welsh: magnesiwm — chemical element