sulfur

• sulphur (Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, UK; no longer standard in scientific usage)

From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌl.fə/
• (US) enPR: sŭl'fər, IPA^(key): /ˈsʌl.fɚ/

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• Hyphenation: sul‧fur

sulfur (usually uncountable, plural sulfurs)

1. (uncountable) A chemical element (symbol S) with an atomic number of 16.

   Synonym: (archaic, not in technical usage) brimstone

   Hypernym: chalcogen

2. (countable, uncountable) A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.

   sulfur:  

3. Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the sulfur-coloured species.

   Coordinate term: yellow

sulfur (comparative more sulfur, superlative most sulfur)

1. Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.

sulfur (third-person singular simple present sulfurs, present participle sulfuring, simple past and past participle sulfured)

1. (transitive) To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests.

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Sulfur”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “sulfur”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

sulfur m (plural sulfure, definite sulfuri, definite plural sulfuret)

1. (chemistry) sulfur

• “sulfur”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980

Borrowed from Latin sulfur; doublet of the inherited sofre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [sulˈfur]

sulfur m (plural sulfurs)

1. sulfide, sulphide

• disulfur

• “sulfur” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sulfur”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sulfur” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sulfur” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Ultimately borrowed from Latin sulfur; cf. English sulfur.

sulfur

1. (obsolete) sulphur
   • 1855, Tidsskrift for populære fremstillinger af naturvidenskaben, page 379:

     ... men meget snart gik man bort fra disse bestemte Stoffer, og Sulfur og Mercurius gik nu fra at være  ...

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   • 1896, Alfred Georg Ludvig Lehmann, Overtro og trolddom fra de æeldste tider til vore dage:

     ... forskellige Stoffer adskilte sig kun fra hinanden derved, at de indeholdt forskellige Mængder af Sulfur og Merkurius; ...

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   • 1918, Det Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskabs skrifter: Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk afdeling:

     Thi Agerjord er ikke andet end brændbare Bestanddele (Sulfur) og Alkali (sal fixum), ...

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• svovl

Learned borrowing from Latin sulfur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʊl.fʊr/
• Rhymes: -fʊr, -ʊr, -r
• Hyphenation: sul‧fur

sulfur (first-person possessive sulfurku, second-person possessive sulfurmu, third-person possessive sulfurnya)

1. (chemistry) sulfur

   Synonym: belerang

• “sulfur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• sulphur, sulpur

From Hellenization of sulpur, of uncertain origin. Also compare Old Armenian ծծումբ (ccumb, “sulfur”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsul.fur/, [ˈs̠ʊɫ̪fʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsul.fur/, [ˈsulfur]

sulfur n (genitive sulfuris); third declension

1. sulfur, brimstone
2. lightning

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “sulfur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sulfur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sulfur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from English sulfur, from Middle English, from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur.

• IPA^(key): /sulfo(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -fo(ɹ), -o(ɹ)
• Rhymes: -ur

sulfur (Jawi spelling سولفور, plural sulfur-sulfur, informal 1st possessive sulfurku, 2nd possessive sulfurmu, 3rd possessive sulfurnya)

1. sulfur (element)

• belerang / بليرڠ