Quarz

See also: quarz

German

Etymology

From Middle High German quarz (14th c., Bohemia), probably with the Central German development tw- → qu- (as in quer etc.) from a West Slavic language (compare Czech tvrdý, Polish twardy), from Proto-Slavic *tvьrdъ (“hard”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kvaːrts/, [kʋaːʁt͡s], [kʋaːɐ̯ts], [kʋaːt͡s]
Audio: (file)
Audio: (file)

Noun

Quarz m (strong, genitive Quarzes, plural Quarze)

quartz

Declension

Declension of Quarz [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Quarz	die	Quarze
genitive	eines	des	Quarzes	der	Quarze
dative	einem	dem	Quarz, Quarze¹	den	Quarzen
accusative	einen	den	Quarz	die	Quarze

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Belarusian: кварц (kvarc)
→ Bulgarian: кварц (kvarc)
→ Danish: kvarts
→ Dutch: kwarts
- Afrikaans: kwarts
→ English: quartz
- → Malay: kuarza
→ Estonian: kvarts
→ Faroese: kvarts
→ Finnish: kvartsi
→ French: quartz (see there for further descendants)
→ Galician: cuarzo
→ Georgian: კვარცი (ḳvarci)
→ Hungarian: kvarc
→ Italian: quarzo
→ Macedonian: кварц (kvarc)
→ Northern Sami: kvárca
→ Norwegian Bokmål: kvarts
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kvarts
→ Polish: kwarc
→ Portuguese: quartzo
→ Russian: кварц (kvarc) (see there for further descendants)
→ Serbo-Croatian: kvȁrc, ква̏рц
→ Slovak: kvarc
→ Spanish: cuarzo
→ Swedish: kvarts
→ Ukrainian: кварц (kvarc)

Further reading

“Quarz” in Duden online
“Quarz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkwat͡s/
Rhymes: -ats
Syllabification: Quarz

Noun

Quarz m (plural Quarz)

quartz

Further reading

Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Quarz”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 128