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:  

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 (1997–2023), “Sulfur”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “sulfur”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

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

1. (chemistry) sulfur

• sulfur in Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe at shkenca.org

Borrowed from Latin sulfur; doublet of the inherited sofre.

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, 2023
• “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  ...

   • 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; ...

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

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

• 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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• sulphur, sulpur

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

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

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

1. sulfur (element)

• belerang / بليرڠ‎