železo

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Czech

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Chemical element
Fe
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Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech železo, from Proto-Slavic *želězo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
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  • Hyphenation: že‧le‧zo

Noun

železo n

  1. iron (chemical element)
  2. (golf) iron (a type of golf club)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • železo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • železo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • železo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Lower Sorbian

Noun

železo n inan

  1. Obsolete form of zelezo.

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *želězo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈʒɛlɛzo/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈʒɛlɛzo/

Noun

železo n

  1. iron (chemical element)

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: železo

Further reading

Old Slovak

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *želězo.

Noun

železo n

  1. iron

Descendants

Further reading

  • Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “železo”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *želězo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒělezo/
  • Hyphenation: že‧le‧zo

Noun

žèlezo n (Cyrillic spelling жѐлезо)

  1. iron

Declension

Slovak

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Chemical element
Fe
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Next: kobalt (Co)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak železo, from Proto-Slavic *želězo.

Pronunciation

Noun

železo n (genitive singular železa, nominative plural železá, genitive plural želiez, declension pattern of mesto, related adjective železový or železný, diminutive želiezko)

  1. iron (chemical element)
  2. (golf) iron (a type of golf club)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • železo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Chemical element
Fe
Previous: mangán (Mn)
Next: kóbalt (Co)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *želězo.

Pronunciation

Noun

želẹ́zo n

  1. iron (metal)

Inflection

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Neuter, hard
nominative želézo
genitive želéza
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
želézo
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
želéza
dative
(dajȃlnik)
želézu
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
želézo
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
želézu
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
želézom

Further reading

  • železo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Upper Sorbian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *želězo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʒɛlɛzɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛzɔ
  • Hyphenation: že‧le‧zo
  • Syllabification: že‧le‧zo

Noun

železo n

  1. (chemistry) iron
    Synonym: ferum
    Tuta łopać je ze železa zhotowjena.
    This shovel is made of iron.

Declension

Further reading