Chemical Element
English
Noun
gold (usually uncountable)
- A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
- A coin made of this material, or supposedly so.
- A metallic yellow colour.
- The bullseye of an archery target.
- A gold medal .
- France has won three golds and five silvers.
- (figuratively) Anything or anyone considered to be very valuable.
Derived terms
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Translations
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- Japanese: 金 (きん, kin)
- Kashubian: złoto
- Kazakh: алтын
- Korean: 금 (金, geum)
- Kurdish: zêrr m
- Lao: ຄຳ (ka:m3)
- Latin: aurum
- Latvian: zelts
- Lithuanian: auksas
- Luxembourgish: gold
- Macedonian: злато
- Malay: aurum , emas
- Maltese: deheb
- Manx: airh
- Mongolian: алт , алтан
- Norwegian: gull
- Polish: złoto n
- Portuguese: ouro m
- Romanian: aur n
- Romanica: auro m
- Russian: золото n
- Scottish Gaelic: òr
- Serbian: злато
- Slovak: zlato n
- Slovenian: zlato n
- Spanish: oro m
- Swedish: guld
- Tagalog: ginto
- Tajik: tillo
- Thai: ทองคำ (torng-kum)
- Tupinambá: itaîuba
- Turkish: altın
- Ukrainian: золото
- Uzbek: олтин
- Vietnamese: vàng
- Welsh: aur m
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coin
colour
bullseye
gold medal
anything or anyone considered to be very valuable
Translations to be checked
The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. The numbering is wrong.
- Chinese: 金 (2, 3), 金色 (2), 金幣 / 金币 (3)
- Dutch: goud n (2), goudstuk n
- Interlingua: auro (2)
- Portuguese: ouro m (2)
- Romanian: galben auriu (2)
- Romanica: auro m (2)
- Russian: золотой m(3)
- Slovak: zlatka f (3)
- Slovenian: zlato n (2), zlatnik m (3)
- Vietnamese: vàng (2), tiền vàng (3)
Adjective
gold (no comparative or superlative)
- Made of gold.
- Having the colour of gold.
Synonyms
- (having the colour of gold): golden
Translations
made of gold
- French: d'or m and f, doré m, dorée f
- German: golden, gülden (archaic)
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having the colour of gold
- French: doré m, dorée f
- German: golden, gülden (archaic), goldfarben
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Translations to be checked
The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. The numbering is unreliable.
- Basque: urrezko
- Breton: aour
- Bulgarian: златен m, златна f, златно n
- Catalan: or, daurat m
- Chinese: 金
- Czech: zlatý m, zlatá f, zlaté n
- Dutch: gouden (1), goudkleurig (2)
- Esperanto: orkolora
- Finnish: kultainen
- Guarani: itaju -, kuarepotiju -
- Hungarian: arany
- Indonesian: keemasan
- Interlingua: auree , aurate
- Japanese: 金色 (きんいろ, kin-iro)
- Portuguese: de ouro , áureo m, áurea f (1, 2); dourado m, dourada f (2)
- Romanian: auriu m, aurie f, aurii m and f plural
- Romanica: aureo m, aurea f, aurato m, aurata f
- Russian: золотой m,золотая f, золотое n
- Slovak: zlatý m, zlatá f, zlaté n
- Spanish: dorado m, dorada f; oro m and f
- Swedish: gyllene
- Tagalog: ginto na / gintong
- Tupinambá: itaîuba -
- Vietnamese: vàng (yellow)
- Welsh: aur
See also
External links
For etymology and more information refer to:
http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/elem/au.html
(A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author)