kobalt

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English

Noun

kobalt (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of cobalt.

Afrikaans

Chemical element
Co
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Pronunciation

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Noun

kobalt (uncountable)

  1. cobalt

Cornish

Chemical element
Co
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Etymology

Borrowed from English cobalt.

Noun

kobalt m

  1. cobalt

Mutation

Mutation of kobalt
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
kobalt gobalt hobalt unchanged unchanged unchanged

Czech

Chemical element
Co
Previous: železo (Fe)
Next: nikl (Ni)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kobalt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ko‧balt

Noun

kobalt m inan

  1. cobalt

Declension

Further reading

  • kobalt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • kobalt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • kobalt”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Noun

kobalt

  1. Obsolete spelling of cobalt.
    • 1866, Tidsskrift for physik og chemi samt disse videnskabers anvendelse, page 12:
      ... hvorpaa alt Kobalt er bundfældet som et smukt rødviolet krystallinsk Bundfald, ...
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    • 1857, Archiv for Pharmacie Og Technisk Chemie Med Deres Grundvidenskaber:
      Kobalt er et af de meest strækkelige og især seigeste Metaller, ...
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    • 1826, Tidsskrift for naturvidenskaberne. ..., page 141:
      I det svovlsure Jern og den svovlsure Kobalt er Forholdet imellem Vandet og Basens Ilt som 6: 1, ...
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    • 1866, Oversigt over det Kongelige danske videnskabernes selskab virksomhed:
      ... medens det paa den anden Side er nødvendigt for den paafølgende Adskillelse af Zink fra Nikkel og Kobalt, ...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Dutch

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Chemical element
Co
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Etymology

Borrowed from German Kobalt, from Kobold, originally an derogatory nickname for the 'inferior' ore which contaminated silver finds.

Pronunciation

Noun

kobalt n (uncountable)

  1. the metallic element and material cobalt
  2. the die made from its oxyde
  3. its bluish metallic color shade

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: kobalt
  • Indonesian: kobalt

Hungarian

 kobalt on Hungarian Wikipedia
Chemical element
Co
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Next: nikkel (Ni)

Pronunciation

Noun

kobalt (usually uncountable, plural kobaltok)

  1. cobalt (a chemical element)

Declension

Possessive forms of kobalt
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kobaltom kobaltjaim
2nd person sing. kobaltod kobaltjaid
3rd person sing. kobaltja kobaltjai
1st person plural kobaltunk kobaltjaink
2nd person plural kobaltotok kobaltjaitok
3rd person plural kobaltjuk kobaltjaik

Derived terms

(Compound words):

Further reading

  • kobalt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id
Chemical element
Co
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Next: nikel (Ni)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Kobalt, from German Kobalt.

Pronunciation

Noun

kobalt (plural kobalt-kobalt)

  1. cobalt

Further reading

Limburgish

Pronunciation

Noun

kobalt

  1. (uncountable) The metallic element and material cobalt
  2. A part of cobalt

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
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Chemical element
Co
Previous: besi (Fe)
Next: nikel (Ni)

Etymology

From English cobalt, from German Kobold.

Pronunciation

Noun

kobalt

  1. cobalt (chemical element)

Maltese

Chemical element
Co
Previous: ħadid (Fe)
Next: nikil (Ni)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cobalto.

Pronunciation

Noun

kobalt m

  1. (chemistry) cobalt (chemical element)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Chemical element
Co
Previous: żelazo (Fe)
Next: nikiel (Ni)
kobalt

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kobalt.

Pronunciation

Noun

kobalt m inan (related adjective kobaltowy)

  1. cobalt (chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal)
  2. cobalt, cobalt blue (of the color of the pigment zaffre)
    kobalt:  

Declension

Derived terms

(adjectives):
(nouns):
(verbs):
(nouns):

Further reading

  • kobalt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • kobalt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • kobalt in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

kobalt m (Cyrillic spelling кобалт)

  1. cobalt

Slovak

Chemical element
Co
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Etymology

Borrowed from German Kobalt. First attested in the 17th century.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

kobalt m inan (genitive singular kobaltu, declension pattern of dub)

  1. cobalt

Declension

References

  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “kobalt”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 273

Further reading

  • kobalt”, 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, 2003–2025

Slovene

Chemical element
Co
Previous: želézo (Fe)
Next: níkelj (Ni)

Pronunciation

Noun

kọ̑balt m inan

  1. cobalt

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative kóbalt
genitive kóbalta
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
kóbalt
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
kóbalta
dative
(dajȃlnik)
kóbaltu
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
kóbalt
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
kóbaltu
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
kóbaltom

Further reading

  • kobalt”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Turkish

Chemical element
Co
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Next: nikel (Ni)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قوبالت (kobalt), from French cobalt.

Pronunciation

Noun

kobalt (definite accusative kobaltı, uncountable)

  1. cobalt (chemical element)

Declension

Declension of kobalt
singular plural
nominative kobalt kobaltlar
definite accusative kobaltı kobaltları
dative kobalta kobaltlara
locative kobaltta kobaltlarda
ablative kobalttan kobaltlardan
genitive kobaltın kobaltların