zircon

See also: zircón

English

Etymology

From German Zirkon, possibly via French zircon, formed in the 1780s from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn). Doublet of jargoon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɜː(ɹ)kən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kən

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Noun

zircon (countable and uncountable, plural zircons)

1. (uncountable) A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or grey colour and consisting of silica and zirconia.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 3:

     […] salamanders, mermaids, chimaeras, wild men o’ the woods, leviathans, all hewn from faultless gems, thrice the bulk of a big man’s body, velvet-dark sapphires, chrysolite, beryl, amethyst, and the yellow zircon that is like transparent gold.

   • 2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 June 2012, page 128:

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)

2. (countable) A crystal of zircon, sometimes used as a false gemstone.
   • 1982, “The Message”, performed by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five:

     A zircon princess, seemed to lost her senses

Derived terms

• zircon blue
• zirconite
• zirconium
• zircon light
• zircon-syenite

 

Translations

mineral

Armenian: ցիրկոն (hy) (cʻirkon) Bulgarian: циркон m (cirkon) Catalan: zircó m Chinese: Mandarin: 鋯石 / 锆石 (zh) (gàoshí), 锆英石, 鋯英石 / 锆英石, 风信子石 (zh), 風信子石 / 风信子石 (zh) Danish: zirkon (da) c or n Finnish: zirkoni (fi) French: zircon (fr) m Friulian: zircon m Georgian: ცირკონი (cirḳoni) German: Zirkon (de) m Hindi: गोमेद (hi) m (gomed), गोमेधक (hi) m (gomedhak), गोमेदक (hi) m (gomedak) Hungarian: cirkon (hu) Ido: zirkono (io) Italian: zircone (it) m Japanese: ジルコン (jirukon) Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: zircão m Romanian: zircon (ro) n Russian: цирко́н (ru) m (cirkón) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: циркон m Roman: cirkon (sh) m Spanish: circón (es) m, zircón (es) m Swedish: zirkon (sv) Tagalog: sirkon Thai: เพทาย (th) (pee-taai) Turkish: zirkon (tr) Walloon: please add this translation if you can

See also

• jacinth
• jargon, jargoon

Further reading

• zircon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zirkon, formed in the 1780s from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn). Doublet of jargon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ziʁ.kɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

zircon m (plural zircons)

1. zircon

Further reading

• “zircon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Noun

zircon m (plural zircons)

1. zircon

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French zircon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zirˈkon/

Noun

zircon n (uncountable)

1. zircon

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	zircon	zirconul
genitive-dative	zircon	zirconului
vocative	zirconule

Further reading

• zircon in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)