potassium

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Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1807, from potassa (a Latinized form of potash) + -ium.

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kalium — the chemical element
• Albanian: kalium — the chemical element
• Arabic: بُوتَاسِيُوم (būtāsiyūm) — the chemical element
• Armenian: կալիում (kalium) — the chemical element
• Asturian: potasiu — the chemical element
• Azerbaijani: kalium — the chemical element
• Basque: potasio — the chemical element
• Belarusian: ка́лій (kálij) — the chemical element
• Belarusian: поташ (potaš) — the chemical element
• Bengali: পটাশিয়াম (poṭaśiẏam) — the chemical element
• Breton: potasiom — the chemical element
• Breton: kaliom — the chemical element
• Bulgarian: ка́лий (kálij) — the chemical element
• Burmese: ပိုတက်ဆီယမ် (puitakhciyam) — the chemical element
• Catalan: potassi — the chemical element
• Chinese Cantonese: 鉀 /钾 (gaap3) — the chemical element
• Chinese Mandarin: 鉀 /钾 (jiǎ) — the chemical element
• Cornish: calyum — the chemical element
• Czech: draslík — the chemical element
• Danish: kalium — the chemical element
• Dutch: kalium — the chemical element
• Dutch: potas — the chemical element
• Esperanto: kalio — the chemical element
• Estonian: kaalium — the chemical element
• Faroese: kalium — the chemical element
• Finnish: kalium — the chemical element
• French: potassium — the chemical element
• West-Frisian: kalium — the chemical element
• Friulian: potassi — the chemical element
• Galician: potasio — the chemical element
• Georgian: კალიუმი (ḳaliumi) — the chemical element
• German: Kalium — the chemical element
• Greek: κάλιο (kálio) — the chemical element
• Hawaiian: pokakiuma — the chemical element
• Hebrew: אַשְׁלְגָן (ashlegán) — the chemical element
• Hindi: दहातु (dahātu) — the chemical element
• Hindi: पोटैशियम (poṭaiśiyam) — the chemical element
• Hindi: उखाभस्मज (ukhābhasmaj) — the chemical element
• Hungarian: kálium — the chemical element
• Icelandic: kalín — the chemical element
• Icelandic: kalíum — the chemical element
• Indonesian: kalium — the chemical element
• Indonesian: potasium — the chemical element
• Interlingua: potassium — the chemical element
• Interlingua: kalium — the chemical element
• Irish: potaisiam — the chemical element
• Italian: potassio — the chemical element
• Japanese: カリウム (kariumu) — the chemical element
• Kashubian: kali — the chemical element
• Kazakh: калий (kalii) — the chemical element
• Khmer: ប៉ូតាស្យូម (poutaasyoum) — the chemical element
• Korean: 칼륨 (kallyum) — the chemical element
• Korean: 칼리 (kalli) — the chemical element
• Korean: 포타슘 (potasyum) — the chemical element
• Korean: 가리 (gari) — the chemical element
• Kyrgyz: калий (kaliy) — the chemical element
• Lao: ໂພແທສຊຽມ (phō thǣs sīam) — the chemical element
• Latin: kalium — the chemical element
• Latin: potassium — the chemical element
• Latvian: kālijs — the chemical element
• Lingala: potasu class 9a/10a — the chemical element
• Lithuanian: kalis — the chemical element
• Luxembourgish: Kalium — the chemical element
• Macedonian: калиум (kalium) — the chemical element
• Malay: kalium — the chemical element
• Malayalam: പൊട്ടാസ്യം (poṭṭāsyaṁ) — the chemical element
• Maltese: potassju — the chemical element
• Manx: potashum — the chemical element
• Māori: konurehu — the chemical element
• Mongolian: кали (kali) — the chemical element
• Norwegian Bokmål: kalium — the chemical element
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kalium — the chemical element
• Occitan: potassi — the chemical element
• Persian: پتاسیم (potâsiyom) — the chemical element
• Polish: potas — the chemical element
• Portuguese: potássio — the chemical element
• Punjabi: ਪੋਟਾਸ਼ੀਅਮ (poṭāśīama) — the chemical element
• Romanian: potasiu — the chemical element
• Romanian: kaliu — the chemical element
• Russian: ка́лий (kálij) — the chemical element
• Scottish Gaelic: potaisiam — the chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: калијум — the chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̑лӣј — the chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: kalijum — the chemical element
• Serbo-Croatian: kȃlīj — the chemical element
• Slovak: draslík — the chemical element
• Slovene: kalij — the chemical element
• Spanish: potasio — the chemical element
• Swahili: potasiamu — the chemical element
• Swedish: kalium — the chemical element
• Tagalog: potasyo — the chemical element
• Tajik: калий (kaliy) — the chemical element
• Tamil: வெடியம் (veṭiyam) — the chemical element
• Tamil: பொட்டாசியம் (poṭṭāciyam) — the chemical element
• Thai: โพแทสเซียม (poo-tɛ́ɛs-sîiam) — the chemical element
• Turkish: potasyum — the chemical element
• Turkmen: kaliý — the chemical element
• Ukrainian: ка́лій (kálij) — the chemical element
• Uyghur: كالىي (kaliy) — the chemical element
• Uzbek: kaliy — the chemical element
• Uzbek: калий (kaliy) — the chemical element
• Vietnamese: kali — the chemical element
• Volapük: kalin — the chemical element
• Welsh: potasiwm — the chemical element
• Yiddish: קאַליום (kalyum) — the chemical element
• Yiddish: פּאָטאַסיום (potasyum) — the chemical element