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Etymology

 * One view compares it with 🇨🇬, with this possibly related to, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * One theory connects the word to words for "silver", like 🇨🇬 and, by proxy, 🇨🇬.
 * Another theory compares it with 🇨🇬, indicating a loanword. This is quite feasible, as the Greeks likely first learned of iron from Asia Minor.
 * Finally, the word is very likely of origin given its semantics, which has been compared with 🇨🇬, linked to the reconstruction  thereby giving the meaning of  as "red metal" (perhaps in relation to its red oxide ores and minerals).
 * Finally, the word is very likely of origin given its semantics, which has been compared with 🇨🇬, linked to the reconstruction  thereby giving the meaning of  as "red metal" (perhaps in relation to its red oxide ores and minerals).

Noun

 * 1) iron
 * 2) * c. 90 AD,, 18:12:
 * 3) iron tool, iron implement
 * 4) sword
 * 5) sickle
 * 6) blacksmith's shop, smithy
 * 7)  something hard, a stubborn force
 * 1)  something hard, a stubborn force

Etymology
, whence also the vernacular forms 🇨🇬 and (an etymological doublet). See for the ultimately disputed etymology.

Noun

 * 1)  iron chemical element
 * 2)  iron:

Coordinate terms

 * Appendix:Greek names for chemical elements