Silver
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- Chemical element: Ag (Atomic Number: 47)
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English siolfor, seolfor.
Noun
silver (countable and uncountable; plural silvers)
- (uncountable) A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
- (collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
- (collectively) Cutlery, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
- (collectively) Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
- (countable) A shiny gray/grey color/colour.
Translations
metal
- Afrikaans: silwer
- Albanian: argjent
- Arabic: فضة
- Armenian: (asime)
- Basque: zilarra
- Belarusian: Серабро
- Bosnian: srebro
- Breton: arc'hant m
- Bulgarian: сребро n
- Catalan: plata f, argent m
- Chinese Characters: 銀
- Chinese: 銀 / 银
- Cornish: arhans
- Croatian: srebro
- Czech: stříbro
- Danish: sølv
- Dutch: zilver n
- Esperanto: arĝento
- Estonian: hõbe
- Faroese: silvur
- Finnish: hopea
- French: argent m
- Frisian: sulver
- Friulian: arint
- Galician: prata
- Georgian: ვერცxლი
- German: Silber n
- Greek, Modern: Αργυρος
- Guarani: itatĩ
- Hebrew: כֶּסֶף
- Hungarian: ezüst
- Icelandic: silfur
- Indonesian: perak
- Interlingua: argento
- Irish Gaelic: airgead
- Italian: argento m
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- Japanese: 銀 (ぎん, gin)
- Kashmiri: strzébro
- Kazakh: Кüмис
- Latin: argentum
- Latvian: sudrabs
- Lithuanian: sidabras
- Luxembourgish: sëlwer
- Macedonian: Сребро
- Malay: argentum
- Maltese: fidda
- Manx: argid
- Mongolian: Мөнгө
- Norwegian: sølv
- Polish: srebro
- Portuguese: prata f
- Romanian: argint n
- Russian: серебро (serebro)
- Scottish Gaelic: airgead
- Serbian: Сребро
- Slovak: striebro n
- Slovenian: srebro
- Spanish: plata f
- Tupinambá: itatinga
- Swedish: silver
- Tajik: nukra
- Thai: เงิน
- Turkish: gümüş
- Ukrainian: Срібло
- Uzbek: Кумуш
- Vietnamese: bạc
- Welsh: arian
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coins
cutlery
items made of silver or other white metal
color/colour
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.
- Interlingua: (moneta de) argento (2); argenteria (3)
- Portuguese: (moeda f de) prata f (2); prataria f (3)
- Romanian: argint m (2); argintărie f
External links
- Wikipedia article on silver
- For etymology and more information refer to:
http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/elem/ag.html
(A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author)
Adjective
silver (no comparative or superlative)
- Made from silver.
- Made from another white metal.
- Having a colour like silver: a shiny gray/grey.
silver color
Synonyms
- (having a colour like silver): silvery
Translations
made from silver
made from another white metal
having a colour like silver
- Breton: arc'hant
- Bulgarian: сребърен m, сребърна f, сребърно n, сребърни pl
- Catalan: platejat m, platejada f, argentat m, argentada f
- Danish: sølvfarvet
- Dutch: zilverkleurig
- Esperanto: arĝentkolora
- Finnish: hopeanvärinen, hopeinen
- French: argenté
- German: silbern, silberfarbig
- Hebrew: כֶּסֶף
- Interlingua: argentee, argentin
- Italian: argento m
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- Japanese: 銀色 (ぎんいろ, gin-iro)
- Polish: srebrny m, srebrna f
- Portuguese: prata m & f; prateado m, prateada f; argênteo m, argêntea f; argentino m, argentina f
- Romanian: argintiu m, argintie f, argintii m and f plural
- Russian: серебряный
- Slovak: striebristý m, striebristá f, striebristé n
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- Slovak: strieborný m, strieborná f, strieborné n (1)
Derived terms
See also
pl:silver
