ałun
Polish
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editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish hałun. Compare Kashubian ałun and Slovincian alún.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editałun m inan (related adjective ałunowy)
- alum (astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O))
- używać ałunu ― to use alum
- (inorganic chemistry) alum (any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations)
- ałun potasowy ― potassium alum
Declension
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Further reading
edit- ałun in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- ałun in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- ałun in PWN's encyclopedia
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “hałun”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “HAŁUN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2016 November 4
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ałun”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ałun”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “ałun, hałun”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 28
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