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
Noun
Zirkon m (strong, genitive Zirkons, plural Zirkone)
- zircon
Declension
Declension of Zirkon [masculine, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | der | Zirkon | die | Zirkone |
genitive | eines | des | Zirkons | der | Zirkone |
dative | einem | dem | Zirkon | den | Zirkonen |
accusative | einen | den | Zirkon | die | Zirkone |
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:
- Cyrillic: цѝрко̄н
- Latin: cìrkōn
- → Slovak: zirkón
- → Slovene: cirkon
- → Spanish: circón
- → Swedish: zirkon
- → Tagalog: sirkon
- → Ukrainian: цирко́н (cyrkón)
Further reading
- “Zirkon” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Zirkon” in Duden online