Zirkon
German
Etymology
This, as in the same decade Zirkonium, has been formed artificially by Abraham Gottlob Werner in the 1780s from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn) and then this mineral and metal name spread from German into all European languages and the world.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - IPA(key): /t͡sɪrˈkoːn/
- Rhymes: -oːn
Declension
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Descendants
- → Belarusian: цырко́н (cyrkón)
- → Bulgarian: циркон (cirkon)
- → Catalan: zircó
- → Czech: zirkon
- → Danish: zirkon
- → English: zircon
- → Estonian: tsirkoon
- → French: zircon
- → Finnish: zirkoni
- → Hungarian: cirkon
- → Italian: zircone
- → Japanese: ジルコン (jirukon)
- → Lithuanian: cirkonas
- → Macedonian: циркон (cirkon)
- → Polish: cyrkon
- → Portuguese: zircão
- → Romanian: zircon
- → Russian: цирко́н (cirkón)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: zirkón
- → Slovene: cirkon
- → Spanish: circón
- → Swedish: zirkon
- → Tagalog: sirkon
- → Ukrainian: цирко́н (cyrkón)
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