zinc

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h3ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h3dóntsder. Proto-Germanic *tindaz Old High German zint? Old High German zinko Middle High German zinke German Zinke? German Zinkbor. English zinc Borrowed from German Zink, related to Zinke (“point, prong”), from Middle High German zinke, from Old High German zinko (“prong, tine”), allied to zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h3dónts (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Old English tind (“tine, prong”), Middle Low German tinde, Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”). See also Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne (“tooth of a rake”), More at tine. Doublet of zincum.

125 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sink — element
• Albanian: zink — element
• Amharic: ዚንክ (zink) — element
• Arabic: خَارَصِين (ḵāraṣīn) — element
• Arabic: تُوتِيَاء (tūtiyāʔ) — element
• Arabic: زِنْك (zink) — element
• Armenian: ցինկ (cʻink) — element
• Asturian: cinc — element
• Azerbaijani: sink — element
• Basque: zinka — element
• Belarusian: цынк (cynk) — element
• Bengali: দস্তা (dosta) — element
• Breton: zink — element
• Bulgarian: цинк (cink) — element
• Burmese: သွပ် (swap) — element
• Burmese: ဇင့်ခ် (jang.hk) — element
• Catalan: zinc — element
• Cherokee: ᎦᏙᎤᎳᏂ (gadoulani) — element
• Chinese Mandarin: 鋅 /锌 (xīn) — element
• Cornish: synk — element
• Czech: zinek — element
• Danish: zink — element
• Dutch: zink — element
• Esperanto: zinko — element
• Estonian: tsink — element
• Farefare: zɩŋk — element
• Faroese: sink — element
• Finnish: sinkki — element
• French: zinc — element
• West-Frisian: sink — element
• Friulian: zinc — element
• Galician: cinc — element
• Georgian: თუთია (tutia) — element
• German: Zink — element
• Greek: ψευδάργυρος (psevdárgyros) — element
• Greek: τσίγκος (tsígkos) — element
• Greenlandic: zinki — element
• Hebrew: אָבָץ (avats) — element
• Hindi: जस्ता (jastā) — element
• Hungarian: cink — element
• Icelandic: sink — element
• Ido: zinko — element
• Indonesian: seng — element
• Ingrian: sinkki — element
• Interlingua: zinc — element
• Irish: sinc — element
• Italian: zinco — element
• Japanese: 亜鉛 (aen) — element
• Kashubian: cynk — element
• Kazakh: мырыш (myryş) — element
• Khmer: ស័ង្កសី (sangkaʼsəy) — element
• Khmer: សាំង្កសី (sangkaʼsəy) — element
• Khmer: ស័ង្គសី (sangkaʼsəy) — element
• Korean: 아연 (ayeon) — element
• Kyrgyz: цинк (tsink) — element
• Lao: ສັງກະສີ (sang ka sī) — element
• Latin: zincum — element
• Latvian: cinks — element
• Lingala: zɛ́nki class 9a/10a — element
• Lithuanian: cinkas — element
• Luxembourgish: Zénk — element
• Macedonian: цинк (cink) — element
• Malay: zink — element
• Malay: seng — element
• Malay: timah sari — element
• Malay: ayan — element
• Malayalam: നാകം (nākaṁ) — element
• Malayalam: വെളുത്തീയം (veḷuttīyaṁ) — element
• Maltese: żingu — element
• Manx: shinc — element
• Manx: meain ghorrym — element
• Māori: konutea — element
• Māori: tingiki — element
• Central Melanau: zink — element
• Mongolian: цайр (cajr) — element
• Mongolian: цинк (cink) — element
• Naro: nxam — element
• Navajo: béésh dootłʼizh — element
• Norwegian Bokmål: sink — element
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sink — element
• Occitan: zinc — element
• Pashto: زينک (zink) — element
• Pashto: جست (ǰast) — element
• Persian: روی (ruy) — element
• Polish: cynk — element
• Portuguese: zinco — element
• Romanian: zinc — element
• Russian: цинк (cink) — element
• Scottish Gaelic: sinc — element
• Serbo-Croatian: ци̏нк — element
• Serbo-Croatian: cȉnk — element
• Slovak: zinok — element
• Slovene: cink — element
• Spanish: zinc — element
• Spanish: cinc — element
• Swahili: zinki — element
• Swedish: zink — element
• Tagalog: sink — element
• Tagalog: singk — element
• Tajik: руҳ (ruh) — element
• Tamil: நாகம் (nākam) — element
• Tamil: ஜிங்க் (jiṅk) — element
• Tamil: துத்தநாகம் (tuttanākam) — element
• Tashelhit: aqzdir — element
• Thai: สังกะสี (sǎng-gà-sǐi) — element
• Tibetan: ཏི་ཚ (ti tsha) — element
• Turkish: çinko — element
• Turkmen: sink — element
• Ukrainian: цинк (cynk) — element
• Urdu: جست (jast) — element
• Uyghur: سىنك (sink) — element
• Uzbek: rux — element
• Uzbek: sink — element
• Uzbek: рух (rux) — element
• Vietnamese: kẽm — element
• Volapük: zinkin — element
• Welsh: zinc — element
• Welsh: sinc — element
• Yiddish: צינק (tsink) — element
• Bulgarian: поцинковам (pocinkovam) — electroplate with zinc
• Catalan: zincar — electroplate with zinc
• German: verzinken — electroplate with zinc
• Italian: zincare — electroplate with zinc
• Spanish: zincar — electroplate with zinc
• Spanish: cincar — electroplate with zinc