uranium

See also: Uranium

English

Chemical element (edit)
U Atomic number 92 uranium
Classification data Period 7 Group 3 Block f-block Class actinide
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Next: neptunium (Np) →
English Wikipedia article on Uranium

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek οὐρᾰνός (ourănós)

Ancient Greek Οὐρᾰνός (Ourănós)der.

Latin Ūranusbor.

English Uranus

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -iumlbor.

English -ium

English uranium

After Uranus (the planet), +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ūrā'nēəm, IPA^(key): /ˌjuː.ˈɹeɪ.ni.əm/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹeɪniəm/, /ˌjyː.ˈɹəɪ̯.nɪ̝.əm/, /jʏˈ.ɹəɪ̯.nɪ̝.əm/

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• Rhymes: -eɪniəm

Noun

uranium (countable and uncountable, plural uraniums or (nonstandard, humorous) urania)

2. (chemistry) The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U. A radioactive silvery-grey metal in the actinide series.

   Hyponyms: NU, natural uranium; enriched uranium; LEU, low-enriched uranium, HALEU, high-assay low-enriched uranium, SEU, slightly enriched uranium, HEU, highly enriched uranium; DU, depleted uranium

   • 1962, Robert Frost, “The Milky Way Is a Cowpath”, in In the Clearing, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, page 87:

     Incorrigible Quid-nuncs, / We would see what would come / Of pelting heaven with chunks / Of crude uranium.

   • 2025 June 29, Laura Sharman and Sophie Tanno, “UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’”, in CNN‎^[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 21 April 2026:

     The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says US strikes on Iran fell short of causing total damage to its nuclear program and that Tehran could restart enriching uranium “in a matter of months,” contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims the US set Tehran’s ambitions back by decades.

   1. (countable) An atom of this element.

Derived terms

• actino-uranium
• althupite
• depleted uranium
• dioxouranium
• diuranium
• eka-uranium
• enriched uranium
• ferrouranium
• highly-enriched uranium
• low-enriched uranium
• natural uranium
• nonuranium
• organouranium
• radiouranium
• slightly enriched uranium
• slightly-enriched uranium
• transuranium
• triuranium
• triuranium octaoxide
• uran-
• uranate
• uraniate
• uranic
• uraniferous
• uranin
• uraninite
• uranious
• uranite
• uranitic
• uranium-232
• uranium-233
• uranium-234
• uranium-235
• uranium-238
• uranium-239
• uranium-240
• uranium acetate
• uraniumaire
• uranium-bloom
• uranium bomb
• uranium borohydride
• uranium dioxide
• uranium fission
• uranium glass
• uranium-green
• uranium hexafluoride
• uranium I
• uranium II
• uranium lead
• uranium-lead dating
• uranium nitrate
• uranium nitride
• uranium-ocher, uranium-ochre
• uranium-orange
• uranium oxide
• uranium phosphate
• uranium series
• uranium tetrafluoride
• uranium-thorium dating
• uranium trioxide
• uranium vitriol
• uranium X₂
• uranium X, uranium X₁
• uranium Y
• uranium-yellow
• uranium Z
• urano-
• uranous
• uranyl
• weapons-grade uranium

Related terms

• uranate
• Urania
• urania
• Uranian

Translations

uranium (element)

• Afrikaans: uraan (af)
• Albanian: urani ?
• Arabic: يُورَانِيُوم m (yūrāniyūm), أُورَانِيُوم m (ʔūrāniyūm)
• Armenian: ուրան (hy) (uran)
• Asturian: uraniu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: uran
• Basque: uranioa
• Belarusian: ура́н m (urán)
• Breton: uraniom (br) ?
• Bulgarian: ура́н (bg) m (urán)
• Catalan: urani (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏳᏪᏂᎥᎻ (yuwenivmi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鈾 / 铀 (jau^4-2)

  Mandarin: 鈾 / 铀 (zh) (yóu)

• Cornish: uraniom m
• Czech: uran (cs) m
• Danish: uran (da) c or n
• Dutch: uranium (nl) n, uraan (nl) n
• Esperanto: uranio (eo)
• Estonian: uraan (et)
• Faroese: uran n
• Finnish: uraani (fi)
• French: uranium (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: uranium ?

• Friulian: urani ?
• Galician: uranio (gl) m
• Georgian: ურანი (urani)
• German: Uran (de) n
• Greek: ουράνιο (el) n (ouránio)
• Gujarati: કિરણાતુ ? (kirṇātu)
• Hebrew: אורניום (he) m (urányum)
• Hindi: किरणातु ? (kirṇātu), यूरेनियम (hi) (yūreniyam)
• Hungarian: urán (hu)
• Icelandic: úran (is) n
• Inuktitut: ᓄᖑᑦᓱᐃᑦᑐᖅ (nongotsoittoq)
• Irish: úráiniam m
• Italian: uranio (it) m
• Japanese: ウラン (ja) (uran)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kashubian: ùran ?
• Khmer: អ៊ុយរ៉ាញ៉ូម (uyraanyoum)
• Korean: 우라늄 (ko) (uranyum), 우란 (uran)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: یورانیۆم (îwranyom)

• Latin: uranium (la) n
• Latvian: urāns m
• Lithuanian: uranas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Uran ?
• Macedonian: ура́ниум m (uránium)
• Malay: uranium
• Maltese: uranju m
• Manx: uraaniu m
• Māori: konukarihi
• Mongolian: уран (mn) (uran)
• Nahuatl: ilhuicateotepoztli
• Navajo: łeetsoh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uran n

  Nynorsk: uran (nn) n

• Occitan: urani (oc) m
• Persian: اورانیوم (fa) (orâniyom)
• Polish: uran (pl) m
• Portuguese: urânio (pt) m
• Romanian: uraniu (ro) n
• Russian: ура́н (ru) m (urán)
• Santali: ᱭᱩᱨᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟᱢ (yureniyam)
• Scottish Gaelic: uranium m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: уран m, у̀ра̄нӣј m, у̀ра̄нӣјум m

  Latin: uran m, ùrānīj (sh) m, ùrānījum (sh) m

• Slovak: urán (sk) m
• Slovene: uran (sl) m
• Spanish: uranio (es) m
• Swahili: urani (sw) ?, uraniamu
• Swedish: uran (sv) n
• Tagalog: uranyo
• Tajik: уран (uran)
• Tamil: அடரியம் (aṭariyam), யுரேனியம் (ta) (yurēṉiyam)
• Telugu: గురుత్వాకర్షణము (gurutvākarṣaṇamu)
• Thai: ยูเรเนียม (yuu-ree-nîiam)
• Turkish: uranyum (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: اورانیوم (ūrāniyūm)

• Ukrainian: ура́н (uk) m (urán)
• Urdu: یورینیئم (yūreniyam)
• Uyghur: ئۇران (ug) (uran)
• Uzbek: uran (uz)

  Cyrillic: уран (uz) (uran)

• Vietnamese: urani (vi), uran (vi)
• Volapük: luranin (vo)
• Welsh: wraniwm m
• Yiddish: אוראַניום m (uranyum)

See also

• uranium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• autunite
• coffinite
• green salt
• hex
• oralloy
• pitchblende
• torbernite
• tuballoy
• yellowcake

Danish

Noun

uranium

1. alternative form of uran

Dutch

Chemical element (edit)
U Atomic number 92 uranium
Classification data Period 7 Group 3 Block f-block Class actinide
Previous: ← protactinium (Pa)
Next: neptunium (Np) →

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin uranium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yˈraː.ni.ʏm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ura‧ni‧um

Noun

uranium n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. uranium [from 1790s]

Synonyms

• uraan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ʁa.njɔm/

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

uranium m (uncountable)

1. uranium

Descendants

• → Persian: اورانیم (urâniyom), اورانیوم (urâniyom)

Further reading

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

Latin

Chemical element (edit)
U Atomic number 92 uranium
Classification data Period 7 Group 3 Block f-block Class actinide
Previous: ← protactinium (Pa)
Next: neptunium (Np) →
Latin Wikipedia article on Uranium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uːˈra.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [uˈraː.ni.um]

Noun

ūranium n (genitive ūraniī); second declension

1. uranium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	ūranium	ūrania
genitive	ūraniī	ūraniōrum
dative	ūraniō	ūraniīs
accusative	ūranium	ūrania
ablative	ūraniō	ūraniīs
vocative	ūranium	ūrania

Related terms

• Ūranus
• -ius - -ium

Malay

Chemical element (edit)
U Atomic number 92 uranium
Classification data Period 7 Group 3 Block f-block Class actinide
Previous: ← protaktinium (Pa)
Next: neptunium (Np) →

Etymology

From English uranium, from Uranus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [uraniom], [uraniəm], [jureniəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

uranium

1. uranium (uranium (element))