magnet

Etymology
From, via , , from , either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia). Related to, and.



Noun

 * 1) A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
 * 2)  A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.

Coordinate terms

 * a magnet analog for electric charge

Translations

 * Akkadian: 𒍝 𒍝𒁉𒌈, 𒃻𒁕𒉡 𒍝𒁉𒌈
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: መግነጢስ
 * Arabic: مَغْنَاطِيس
 * Hijazi Arabic: مِغْنَاطِيس
 * South Levantine Arabic: مَغْنَاطِيس
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: চুম্বক, অয়স্কান্ত
 * Asturian:
 * Aymara: achkatasiri
 * Azerbaijani: maqnit, ahənrüba, dəmirqapan
 * Basque: iman
 * Belarusian: магні́т
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: магни́т
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: маґнет
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 攝石
 * Dungan: щитешы
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: tennven
 * Crimean Tatar: mıqnatis
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: sigul, magnet, magnetur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მაგნიტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, मक़नातीस
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua: magnete
 * Inupiaq: nipitchak
 * Irish: maighnéad, adhmaint
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: сорнц
 * Kazakh: магнит
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: مەقناتیس
 * Kyrgyz: магнит
 * Lao:, ແມ່ເຫລັກ
 * Latin: magnes
 * Latvian: magnēts
 * Lithuanian: magnetas
 * Lü: ᦶᦙᧈᦵᦜᧅ
 * Macedonian: магнет
 * Malay: besi berani, besi semberani,
 * Manx: magnaid
 * Maori: autō
 * Middle Korean: 지〮남셕〮
 * Mon: သြာန်လာ်
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: magnet
 * Pashto: مقناطيس
 * Persian:, مغنیطیس
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਚੁੰਬਕ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * S'gaw Karen: ထးနါ
 * Scottish Gaelic: magnait
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ма̀гне̄т
 * Roman:
 * Shan: သၢၼ်ႇလႅၵ်ႉ, လဵၵ်းၸၼ်
 * Slovak: magnet
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, magnete
 * Swahili: sumaku
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: batubalani, gayuma
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྐུད་འདྲེན་ལེན་པོ, ཁད་ལོང, ཁབ་ལོང, ཁབ་ལེན་རྡོ, རྡོ་ཁབ་ལེན
 * Turkish:, çaşak
 * Turkmen: magnit
 * Ukrainian: магні́т
 * Urdu: مَقْناطِیس
 * Uyghur: ماگنىت
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: magnet
 * Yiddish: מאַגנעט
 * Zhuang: yapsig
 * Zulu: uzibuthe

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , "lodestone" from , either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of  (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  a piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
 * 1)  a piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.

Noun

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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) a  piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism

Noun

 * 1) a  piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism

Etymology
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