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

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IPA^(key): /t͡sɪrˈkoːn/
Rhymes: -oːn

Noun

Zirkon m (strong, genitive Zirkons, plural Zirkone)

zircon

Declension

Declension of Zirkon [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	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)