zircon

From German Zirkon, possibly via French zircon, formed in the 1780s from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn). Doublet of jargoon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɜː(ɹ)kən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kən

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zircon (countable and uncountable, plural zircons)

1. (uncountable) A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or grey colour and consisting of silica and zirconia.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:

     […] salamanders, mermaids, chimaeras, wild men o’ the woods, leviathans, all hewn from faultless gems, thrice the bulk of a big man’s body, velvet-dark sapphires, chrysolite, beryl, amethyst, and the yellow zircon that is like transparent gold.

   • 2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 June 2012, page 128:

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)

2. (countable) A crystal of zircon, sometimes used as a false gemstone.
   • 1982, “The Message”, performed by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five:

     A zircon princess, seemed to lost her senses

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• jargon, jargoon

• zircon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from German Zirkon, formed in the 1780s from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn). Doublet of jargon.

• IPA^(key): /ziʁ.kɔ̃/

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zircon m (plural zircons)

1. zircon

• “zircon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

zircon m (plural zircons)

1. zircon

Borrowed from French zircon.

• IPA^(key): /zirˈkon/

zircon n (uncountable)

1. zircon

• “zircon”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025