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Chemical Element

  • Au (Atomic Number: 79)
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English

Noun

gold (usually uncountable)

  1. A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
  2. A coin made of this material, or supposedly so.
  3. A metallic yellow colour.
  4. The bullseye of an archery target.
  5. A gold medal .
    France has won three golds and five silvers.
  6. (figuratively) Anything or anyone considered to be very valuable.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • gild
  • gilded

Translations

element

  • Japanese: (きん, kin)
  • Kashubian: złoto
  • Kazakh: алтын
  • Korean: 금 (, 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


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: (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)

  1. Made of gold.
  2. 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)
  • Italian: di oro m and f

having the colour of gold

  • French: doré m, dorée f
  • German: golden, gülden (archaic), goldfarben
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:
  • 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)

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