silver

See also: Silver

English

Etymology

From Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, seolofor (“silver”), from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin.

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cognates and etymology discussion

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). A further derivation from Proto-Indo-European *silubʰr-, *silebʰr- (“silver”) is not supported by cognates outside of Proto-Germanic. The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque (zilar, zilhar and further dialectal variants) and perhaps Berber (Tashelhit aẓrf), but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown. A Wanderwort of ultimately Semitic origin has been suggested (Akkadian 𒀫𒁍𒌝 (ṣurpum, “silver”), from 𒍝𒊏𒁍𒌝 (ṣarāpum, “to smelt or refine”)). However at least one scholar has considered this phonologically and geographically improbable.

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Adjective sense of twenty-fifth wedding anniversary generalized from silver wedding, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Silberhochzeit, silberne Hochzeit.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪl.və/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɪlvə(ɹ)
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Noun

silver (countable and uncountable, plural silvers)

Chemical element
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1. (uncountable) A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
2. (collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
3. (collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
4. (collectively) Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
5. (countable) A shiny gray color.

   silver:  

6. Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white.
   • 1909, H. G. Wells, The Beautiful Suit

     And next morning they found him dead, with his neck broken, in the bottom of the stone pit, with his beautiful clothes a little bloody, and foul and stained with the duckweed from the pond. But his face was a face of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.

Synonyms

• (metallic element): argyr-
• (white-metal coins): argyr-
• (cutlery and other eating utensils): silverware
• E174 (when used as a food colouring)

Derived terms

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• silver alert
• silver ash ()
• silver bass ()
• silver beech ()
• silver bell (Halesia spp.)
• silver bell tree / silver-bell tree / silverbell tree (Halesia)
• silver berry / silverberry (Elaeagnus)
• silverbill (Lonchura spp.)
• silver birch (Betula pendula)
• silver book
• silverboom ()
• Silver Bow
• Silver Bow County
• silver bromide
• silver bullet
• silver-bush / silverbush (, , )
• silver ceiling
• silver certificate
• silver chloride
• silver city
• silver cord
• silver doctor
• silver dollar
• silver-eared mesia
• silver eye / silver-eye / silvereye ()
• silver fern ()
• silverfin ()
• silver fir (Abies spp;)
• silverfish
• silver fizz
• silver fluoride
• silver foil
• silver-fork deformity
• silver-fork fracture
• silver fox (Vulpes vulpes form)
• silver frost
• silver gilt
• silver goose
• silver grass (Miscanthus)
• silver gray / silver-gray / silvergray / silver grey / silver-grey
• silver-green
• silver hake ()
• silver halide
• silver iodate
• silver iodide
• silver jenny
• silver jubilee
• silver lace / silver-lace
• silver lace vine / silver-lace vine ()
• silver leaf
• silver-leafed / silver-leaved
• silver-leaf nettle ()
• silver-leaf nightshade ()
• silver-leaf poplar (Populus alba)
• silver-leaf tree ()
• silver lime ()
• silver linden ()
• silver lining
• silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
• silver medal
• silver medalist
• silver mine
• silver mound
• silver nitrate
• silver oak (, )
• silver paper
• silver parachute
• silver perch (, , )
• silver pine ()
• silver plate / silver-plate
• silver point
• silver poplar (Populus alba)
• silver protein
• silver protein stain
• silver quandong ()
• silver quandong tree ()
• silver sagebrush ()
• silver sage ()
• silver salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
• silver salvia ()
• silver-scaled
• silver screen
• silver skin / silver-skin
• silver solder
• silver spring
• silver spruce ()
• silver standard
• silver star
• silver star medal
• silver state
• silver storm
• silver thatch
• silver thaw
• silver-tip
• silver tree fern ()
• silver tree ()
• silver trout (†)
• silver vine (, )
• silver wattle (, , , )
• silver willow ()
• silver-worker
• silver wormwood ()

Related terms

• quicksilver
• silver glance, silver-glance
• silverling
• silvern
• thirty pieces of silver

Translations

metal

• Abaza: рызна (rəzna)
• Abkhaz: араʒны (araʒnə), аразны (araznə)
• Adyghe: тыжьыны (təźənə)
• Afrikaans: silwer (af)
• Akkadian: 𒆬𒌓 m (kaspum)
• Albanian: argjend (sq) m
• Arabic: فِضَّة f (fiḍḍa)

  Egyptian Arabic: فضة f (faḍa)

• Aragonese: plata f
• Armenian: արծաթ (hy) (arcatʻ)

  Old Armenian: արծաթ (arcatʻ)

• Aromanian: asimi
• Assamese: ৰূপ (rup)
• Asturian: plata f
• Aymara: qullqi
• Azerbaijani: gümüş (az)
• Baluchi: چاندی (cá̃dí, cándí), نگرہ
• Bambara: warijè
• Bashkir: көмөш (kömöş)
• Basque: zilar (eu)
• Belarusian: серабро́ (be) n (sjerabró), срэ́бра n (srébra)
• Bengali: রুপা (rupa)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: nnqqwrt f, aẓrf m

• Breton: arc'hant (br) m
• Bulgarian: сребро́ (bg) n (srebró)
• Burmese: ငွေ (my) (ngwe)
• Buryat: мүнгэн (müngen) (Russian Buryat)
• Catalan: plata (ca) f, argent (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵥⵕⴼ (aẓṛf)
• Central Melanau: pirek
• Chechen: дети (deti)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 銀 / 银, 银 (ngan⁴)

  Mandarin: 銀 / 银 (zh) (yín), 银 (zh) (yín)

  Min Dong: 銀 / 银 (ngṳ̀ng), 银 (ngṳ̀ng)

• Chuvash: кӗмӗл (kĕmĕl)
• Cornish: arhans
• Crimean Tatar: kümüş
• Czech: stříbro (cs) n
• Dalmatian: arziant
• Danish: sølv (da) n
• Dutch: zilver (nl) n
• Eastern Bontoc: pelak
• Erzya: сия (sija)
• Esperanto: arĝento (eo)
• Estonian: hõbe (et)
• Faroese: silvur n
• Finnish: hopea (fi)
• French: argent (fr) m
• Friulian: arint m
• Gagauz: gümüş
• Galician: prata (gl) f, arxento m, arxén m
• Gallurese: algentu
• Georgian: ვერცხლი (ka) (vercxli)
• German: Silber (de) n
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌱𐍂 n (silubr)
• Greek: άργυρος (el) m (árgyros), ασήμι (el) n (asími)

  Ancient: ἄργυρος m (árguros)

• Greenlandic: sølvi
• Guaraní: itatĩ
• Gujarati: ચાંદી (gu) (cā̃dī)
• Haitian Creole: ajan
• Hausa: azurfa (ha)
• Hebrew: כֶּסֶף (he) m (késef)
• Hindi: चांदी (hi) f (cāndī)
• Hungarian: ezüst (hu)
• Icelandic: silfur (is) n
• Ilocano: pirak
• Indonesian: perak (id)
• Interlingua: argento
• Interlingue:
• Irish: airgead (ga) m

  Old Irish: argat n

• Italian: argento (it) m
• Japanese: 銀 (ja) (ぎん, gin), 銀 (ja) (しろがね, shirogane)
• Kabardian: дыжьын (dəźən)
• Kalmyk: мөңгн (möñgn)
• Kannada: ಬೆಳ್ಳಿ (kn) (beḷḷi)
• Karachay-Balkar: кюмюш (kümüş)
• Karakalpak: gu'mis
• Karelian: hopie, hobie
• Kashubian: strzébro n
• Kazakh: күміс (kk) (kümıs)
• Khakas: кӱмӱс (kümüs)
• Khmer: ប្រាក់ (km) (prak)
• Korean: 은 (ko) (eun) (銀 (ko)), 백은 (baegeun) (白銀)
• Kumyk: гюмюш (gümüş)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زیو (zîw)

  Northern Kurdish: zîv (ku)

• Kyrgyz: күмүш (kümüş)
• Lao: ເງິນ (lo) (ngœn)
• Latgalian: sudobrys m
• Latin: argentum (la) n
• Latvian: sudrabs (lv), sidrabs (lv) m
• Ligurian: argénto m
• Lithuanian: sidabras (lt)
• Livonian: õbdõ, õbḑi, hobju
• Low German:

  German Low German: Sülver n

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• Luxembourgish: Sëlwer n
• Macedonian: сребро n (srebro)
• Malagasy: vola (mg)
• Malay: argentum, perak
• Malayalam: വെള്ളി (ml) (veḷḷi)
• Maltese: fidda f
• Manx: argid m
• Maore Comorian: fedha class 9
• Maori: hiriwa
• Marathi: चांदी (cāndī)
• Middle English: silver
• Mongolian: мөнгө (mn) (möngö)
• Mòcheno: silber n
• Nahuatl: iztac teocuitlatl
• Navajo: béésh łigaii
• Nepali: चाँदी (ne) (cā̃dī)
• Nogai: куьмис (kümis)
• Northern Sami: silba
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sølv (no) n

  Nynorsk: sylv (nn) n, sølv (nn) n

• Occitan: argent (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic: сьрєбро n (sĭrebro)
• Old English: seolfor (ang) n (seolfor)
• Old Norse: silfr n, sylfr n
• Old Prussian: sirablas
• Old Turkic: kümüş
• Ossetian: ӕвзист (ævzist)
• Ottoman Turkish: فضه (fıdda)
• Pashto: سپین زر m (spinzár)
• Pennsylvania German: Silwer n
• Persian: نقره (fa) (noqre), سیم (fa) (sim)
• Polish: srebro (pl) n
• Portuguese: prata (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਚਾਂਦੀ (pa) (cāndī)
• Quechua: qullqi, gollgi, gillai
• Rohingya: rufa
• Romani: rup
• Romanian: argint (ro) n
• Romansch: argient m, argien m
• Russian: серебро́ (ru) n inan (serebró), арге́нтум m inan (argéntum), сребро́ (ru) n (srebró) (poetic)
• Sardinian: prata f, aglientu m, arghentu m

  Campidanese: pratta

  Logudorese: pratta

• Sassarese: pràta
• Saterland Frisian: Säälwer n
• Scots: siller
• Scottish Gaelic: airgead m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сребро n

  Roman: srebro (sh) n

• Shor: кӱмӱш (kümüş)
• Sicilian: argentu (scn) m
• Sindhi: رُپو (rupo)
• Sinhalese: කලදෝ (kaladō), රජත (rajata)
• Skolt Sami: silbb
• Slovak: striebro (sk) n
• Slovene: srebro (sl) n
• Southern Altai: кӱмӱш (kümüş), мӧҥӱн (möñün)
• Spanish: plata (es) f
• Sudovian: sirablas
• Swahili: fedha (sw) class 9/10
• Swedish: silver (sv) n
• Tagalog: pilak
• Tajik: нуқра (tg) (nuqra), сим (tg) (sim)
• Tamil: வெள்ளி (ta) (veḷḷi), சுல்லு (ta) (cullu), சுல் (ta) (cul)
• Tatar: көмеш (tt) (kömeş)
• Telugu: వెండి (te) (veṇḍi), రజతము (te) (rajatamu)
• Thai: เงิน (th) (ngən)
• Tibetan: དངུལ (dngul)
• Tigrinya: ብሩር (ti) (bərur)
• Tocharian A: nkiñk
• Tupinambá: itatinga
• Turkish: gümüş (tr)
• Turkmen: kümüş
• Tuvan: мөңгүн (möñgün)
• Udmurt: азвесь (azveś)
• Ukrainian: срі́бло n inan (sríblo)
• Urdu: چاندی f (candī)
• Uyghur: كۈمۈش (kümüsh)
• Uzbek: kumush (uz)

  Cyrillic: кумуш (kumush)

• Venetian: arxento (vec) m
• Veps: hobed
• Vietnamese: bạc (vi)
• Vilamovian: zyłwer n
• Volapük: largent (vo), largentin (vo) (chemistry - Ag)
• Voro: hõpõ
• Votic: õpõa
• Walloon: ardjint m
• Welsh: arian (cy)
• West Frisian: sulver (fy) n
• Yakut: үрүҥ көмүс (ürüñ kömüs), көмүс (kömüs)
• Yiddish: זילבער n (zilber)
• Zazaki: noqre
• Zhuang: ngaenz
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

coins

• Armenian: արծաթ (hy) (arcatʻ)
• Bulgarian: сре́бърник m (srébǎrnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銀幣 / 银币 (zh) (yínbì), 银币 (zh) (yínbì)

• Danish: sølvmønt (da)
• Finnish: hopearaha (fi)
• Icelandic: silfur (is) n, mynt f (silver coin)
• Italian: moneta d'argento f
• Japanese: 銀貨 (ぎんか, ginka)
• Khmer: ប្រាក់ (km) (prak)
• Korean: 은화 (eunhwa) (銀貨)
• Luganda: feeza
• Malagasy: vola (mg), volafotsy (mg)
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• Ottoman Turkish: درم (direm), سیم (sim)
• Persian: سیم (fa) (sim), نقره (fa) (noqre)
• Portuguese: (moedas de) prata f
• Romani: rupuno
• Russian: сере́бреники (ru) m pl (serébreniki)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сребрњак m

  Roman: srebrnjak (sh) m, srebrnik m

• Slovene: srebrnik m
• Spanish: (monedas de) plata f
• Swedish: silver (sv) n
• Volapük: largentakönäds, (collective) largentakönädem, (money) largentamon

cutlery/silverware

• Armenian: արծաթեղեն (hy) (arcatʻeġen)
• Bulgarian: сребро́ (bg) n (srebró)
• Dutch: bestek (nl) n
• Finnish: aterimet (fi) pl
• French: argenterie (fr) f
• Galician: prateiría f, ourivesaría f
• Hungarian: teríték (hu)
• Italian: argenteria (it) f
• Japanese: 銀器 (ぎんき, ginki)
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• Persian: نقره‌ای (noqre'i), سیمین (fa) (simin)
• Portuguese: prataria (pt) f
• Romanian: argintărie (ro) f, obiecte argintate n
• Russian: сере́бряные изде́лия n pl (serébrjanyje izdélija)
• Serbo-Croatian: srebrnina (sh) f, srebrnarija f
• Slovene: srebrnina (sl) f
• Spanish: platería (es) f
• Swedish: bordssilver (sv) n
• Volapük: largentastömem (vo)

items made of silver or other white metal

• Armenian: արծաթեղեն (hy) (arcatʻeġen)
• Bulgarian: сребро́ (bg) n (srebró)
• Dutch: zilverwerk (nl) n
• Finnish: hopea (fi)
• Greek: ασημικά (el) n pl (asimiká)
• Japanese: 銀製品 (ぎんせいひん, ginseihin)
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• Persian: نقره‌ای (noqre'i), سیمین (fa) (simin)
• Portuguese: prataria (pt) f
• Russian: сере́бряные изде́лия n pl (serébrjanyje izdélija)
• Serbo-Croatian: srebrnarija f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} plata labrada f
• Swedish: silver-

color/colour

• Aragonese: plata f
• Bambara: warijèman
• Bulgarian: сребри́ст (bg) m (srebríst)
• Catalan: argent (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銀色 / 银色 (zh) (yínsè), 银色 (zh) (yínsè)

• Czech: stříbrná (cs)
• Dutch: zilver (nl) n, zilverkleur f
• Esperanto: arĝentkoloro
• Finnish: hopeanharmaa
• French: argent (fr) m
• Galician: prateado (gl) m, arxentado m
• Georgian: ვერცხლისფერი (vercxlisperi)
• Icelandic: silfur (is), silfurlitaður
• Italian: argenteo (it) m, argentino (it) m
• Japanese: 銀色 (ぎんいろ, gin'iro), 銀色 (しろがねいろ, shiroganeiro), 銀色 (ぎんしょく, ginshoku)
• Korean: 은색 (ko) (eunsaek) (銀色)
• Luganda: feeza
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• Malagasy: volafotsy (mg)
• Malay: perak
• Norwegian: sølv (no)
• Pashto: نقره (ps) (naqra)
• Persian: نقره‌ای (noqre'i), نقره‌فام (noqre-fâm), سیمگون (fa) (simgun)
• Portuguese: prateado (pt) m
• Romanian: argintiu (ro) m or n, argintie f
• Russian: серебри́стый (ru) m (serebrístyj) (цвет)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сребрна f

  Roman: srebrna f

• Slovene: srebrna f
• Spanish: plateado (es) m
• Turkish: gümüş rengi (tr)
• Ukrainian: срібля́стий m (sribljástyj)
• Vietnamese: màu bạc
• Volapük: largentaköl

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Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: (moneta de) argento (2), (3) ^{(please verify)} argenteria
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• Romanian: (2) ^{(please verify)} argint (ro) m, ^{(please verify)} argintărie (ro) f

Adjective

silver (comparative more silver, superlative most silver)

Silver Roman artwork

1. Made from silver.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

   • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

     But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

2. Made from another white metal.
3. Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
4. Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
   • 1994, “Mate matching” in Accent on Living, v 38, n 4 (Spring), p 52:

     Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.

5. (of commercial services) Premium, but inferior to gold.
6. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.

   a silver-voiced young girl

Synonyms

• (made from silver): silvern (archaic)
• (having a color like silver): silvery

Related terms

• silver-feast
• silver wedding

Translations

made from silver

• Arabic: فِضِّيّ (fiḍḍiyy), لُجَيْن (lujayn)
• Armenian: արծաթե (hy) (arcatʻe), արծաթյա (hy) (arcatʻya)
• Belarusian: сярэ́браны (sjarébrany)
• Bulgarian: сре́бърен (srébǎren)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銀的 / 银的 (zh), 银的 (zh) (yín de)

• Czech: stříbrný (cs) m
• Dutch: zilveren (nl)
• Esperanto: arĝenta
• Estonian: hõbedane
• Finnish: hopeinen (fi)
• French: en argent (fr)
• Georgian: ვერცხლის (vercxlis)
• German: silbern (de)
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌱𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (silubreins)
• Greek: ασημένιος (el) (asiménios), αργυρός (el) (argyrós)

  Ancient: ἀργύρεος (argúreos), ἀργυροῦς (arguroûs), ἀργύρειος (argúreios), ἀργυρόεις (arguróeis)

• Hungarian: ezüst (hu)
• Italian: argenteo (it)
• Low German:

  German Low German: sülvern

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• Macedonian: сребрен (srebren)
• Persian: نقره‌ای (noqrayi), سیمین (fa) (simin)
• Polish: srebrny (pl)
• Portuguese: de prata (pt)
• Romani: rupuno
• Russian: сере́бряный (ru) m (serébrjanyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сребрен, сребрн

  Roman: srebren (sh), srebrn (sh)

• Slovak: strieborný
• Slovene: srebrn (sl)
• Spanish: de plata (es)
• Telugu: వెండి (te) (veṇḍi)
• Tocharian B: ñikañce
• Turkish: gümüş (tr)
• Ukrainian: срі́бний (sríbnyj)
• Volapük: largentik (vo)
• Võro: hõbõhõnõ

made from another white metal

• Spanish: blanco (es)
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having a color/colour like silver

• Arabic: فِضِّيّ (fiḍḍiyy), لُجَيْن (lujayn)
• Armenian: արծաթե (hy) (arcatʻe), արծաթագույն (hy) (arcatʻaguyn)
• Breton: arc'hant (br)
• Bulgarian: сре́бърен m (srébǎren), сребри́ст (bg) m (srebríst)
• Catalan: platejat, argentat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銀色的 / 银色的 (zh), 银色的 (zh) (yínsè de)

• Czech: stříbrný (cs), stříbřitý
• Danish: sølvfarvet
• Dutch: zilverkleurig (nl), zilverkleurige (nl)
• Esperanto: arĝentkolora
• Finnish: hopeanvärinen, hopeinen (fi)
• French: argenté (fr)
• German: silbern (de), silberfarbig, silberfarben (de), silbrig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀργύφεος (argúpheos), ἀργυροειδής (arguroeidḗs)

• Hebrew: כֶּסֶף (he) (késef)
• Hungarian: ezüstös (hu), ezüstszínű (hu)
• Interlingua: argentee, argentin
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• Italian: argenteo (it), argentino (it)
• Japanese: 銀色 (gin’iro)
• Korean: 은빛의 (eunbichui)
• Low German:

  German Low German: sülvern, sülverfarvig, sülverklöört

• Malay: perak
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sølvfarget

• Persian: نقره ای (noqrah-ie), نقره فام (noqrah-fam), سیمگون (fa) (sim-goon)
• Polish: srebrny (pl)
• Portuguese: prata (pt), prateado (pt), argênteo (pt), argentino (pt)
• Romani: rupalo
• Romanian: argintiu (ro)
• Russian: сере́бряный (ru) (serébrjanyj), серебри́стый (ru) (serebrístyj)
• Slovak: striebristý
• Slovene: srebrn (sl)
• Spanish: plateado (es), argentino (es)
• Telugu: వెండి (te) (veṇḍi)

Derived terms

• antimonial silver
• bismuth-silver
• bromic silver
• capillary silver
• colloidal silver
• cat-silver
• dark red silver ore
• desilver
• desilverise, desilverize
• every cloud has a silver lining
• flat silver
• German silver
• horn silver
• iodic silver
• light red silver ore
• Long John Silver
• molybdic silver
• native silver
• nickel silver, nickel-silver
• red silver
• ruby silver
• sheep-silver
• shell silver
• silver age
• silver alum
• silverback
• silver ball
• silver balli
• silver band
• silver bar
• silver bath
• silver-beater
• silver beech ()
• silver beet (chard, Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris)
• silver-beggar
• silver bell, silver bell tree
• silver-belly
• silver bennet
• silver berry, silverberry
• silverbill
• silver birch
• silver-black
• silver blond, silver blonde
• Silverblu, Silver Blu, Silver Blue
• silver bream
• silver bromide
• silver bronze
• silver buckle
• silver bullet
• silver certificate
• silver chain
• silver char
• silver chickweed
• silver chloride
• silver collection
• silver-colored, silver-coloured
• silver-copper nitrate
• silver cord
• the silver cord is loosed
• silver doctor
• silver dollar
• silver dollar fish
• silver-dun
• silvered
• silver eel
• silverer
• silverette
• silver-eye, silvereye
• silver-eyes
• silver-feast
• silver feather
• silver fern
• silver fir (Abies spp,)
• silver fish, silver-fish, silverfish
• silver-fizz

• silver fluoride
• silver foil
• silver-footed
• silver-fork
• silver fox
• silver frost
• silver fulminate
• silver garfish
• silver gibbon
• silver gilt, silver-gilt
• silver glass
• silver grain, silver-grain
• silver grass, silver-grass
• silver-gray, silver-grey
• silver gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae)
• silver-haired
• silver hair-grass
• silver hake ()
• silver halide
• silver handshake
• silver-head
• silver-headed
• silver herb
• silver-hilted
• silverily
• silveriness
• silvering
• silver iodide
• silverise, silverize
• silverish
• silverism
• silverist
• silverite
• silver iodide
• silver jubilee
• silver king (Atlantic tarpon, )
• silver knapweed
• silver lady
• Silver Lady
• silver lamprey
• silver lavender
• silver lead, silver-lead
• silver-leaf
• silver-leaved
• silverless
• silver-like
• silver line, silver lines
• silver lining
• silver luster, silver lustre
• silverly
• silver maple
• silver-marmoset
• silver medal
• silver medalist, silver medallist
• silver mine
• silver-mounted
• silverness
• silver nitrate
• silver oak
• silver oar
• Silver Office
• silver ore
• silver oxide
• silver paper
• silver perch
• silver pheasant
• silver piece
• silver pike (Esox lucius form)
• silver pine, silver pine tree
• silver plate
• silver-plate
• silver-plated
• silver plover
• silver-point, silverpoint
• silver-pointed

• silver polish
• silver poplar
• silver-powder
• silver print
• silver-printing
• silver rain
• silver ring
• silver rule
• silver salmon
• silver sand
• silver-scaled
• silver screen
• silver service
• silver-shafted
• Silver Shirts
• silver-side, silverside
• silver-sides, silversides (Atheriniformes)
• silver-skin, silverskin
• silversmith
• silversmithing
• silver solder
• silver sole
• silver spoon
• silver-spoonism
• silver-spot, silverspot
• silver-sprig
• silver standard
• Silver Star, Silver Star medal
• silver state
• Silver State
• silver steel
• silver-stick
• silver streak
• silver string
• silver sulfide, silver sulphide
• silver surfer
• silversword
• silver table
• silvertail, silver-tail
• silver-tailed
• silver tea
• silver telluride
• silver thaw
• silver thistle
• silver thread
• silver-tip, silvertip
• silver tongue
• silver-tongued
• silver top
• silver tree
• silver trout
• silver trumpet
• silver trumpeter
• silver-voiced
• silverware
• silver-washed fritillary
• silver wattle
• silver wedding
• silverweed
• silver weight
• silver whiskers
• silver-white
• silver-white cobalt
• silver willow
• silver wire, silver-wire
• silverwood
• silver-work
• silver wreck
• silvery
• silver y, silver y moth
• sterling silver
• telluric silver
• telluride of gold and silver
• telluride of silver

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See also

• argent
• argentaffin
• argental
• argentan
• argentane
• argentate
• argenteous
• argentian
• argentic
• argentiferous
• argentific
• argentify
• Argentina
• Argentine
• argentine
• argentite
• argento-

• argentometer
• argentous
• argentry
• argentum nitricum
• argyria
• electrum
• hydrargyrum
• litharge
• piastre
• plateresque
• polybasite
• proustite
• pyrargyrite
• Rio de la Plata
• sylvanite
• Appendix:Colors

Verb

silver (third-person singular simple present silvers, present participle silvering, simple past and past participle silvered)

1. To acquire a silvery colour.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Lewis Wallace

     The eastern sky began to silver and shine.

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     But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony— a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

2. To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.

   to silver a pin;  to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury

3. To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep.

4. To make hoary, or white, like silver.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Gay

     His head was silvered o'er with age.

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Silver”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “silver”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

Anagrams

• Elvirs, levirs, livers, livres, rivels, sliver, svirel

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Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈsilvɐ/

Adjective

silver

1. silvern

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch silver, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈzɪlvər/

Noun

silver n

1. silver

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zilver
• Limburgish: zèlver

Further reading

• “silver”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “silver”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• seolver, sylver, selver, sulver

Etymology

From Old English seolfor, seolofor (“silver”), from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsilvər/, /ˈsɛlvər/

Noun

silver (plural silvers)

1. silver (metal)

Related terms

• sylveren

Descendants

• English: silver
• Scots: silver, siller

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Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• sylver, sølver

Etymology

From Old Norse silfr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą.

Noun

silver n

1. silver

Declension

Declension of silfr (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	silfr	silfrit	silfr	silfrin
accusative	silfr	silfrit	silfr	silfrin
dative	silfri, silfre	silfrinu, silfreno	silfrum, silfrom	silfrumin, silfromen
genitive	silfrs	silfrsins	silfra	silfranna

Descendants

• Swedish: silver

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish silver, from Old Norse silfr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlvɛr/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

  Audio:

  (file)

Noun

silver n (uncountable)

1. silver
2. silver, coins of silver
3. silver, cutlery of silver
4. a silver medal, for 2nd place in a competition

Declension

Declension of silver

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	silver	silvers
	definite	silvret	silvrets
plural	indefinite	silver	silvers
	definite	silvren	silvrens

Derived terms

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• bordssilver
• kvicksilver
• kyrksilver
• matsilver
• nysilver
• silverarmband
• silverbeslag
• silverbestick
• silverblank
• silverblänkande
• silverbricka
• silverbroderi
• silverbrokad
• silverbrons
• silverbrudpar
• silverbröllop
• silverbägare
• silverfasan
• silverfat
• silverfemma
• silverfisk
• silverflöjt
• silverfärg
• silverfärgad
• silverföremål
• silverglans
• silverglittrande
• silverglänsande
• silvergran
• silvergrogg
• silvergruva
• silvergrå
• silverhalt
• silverhår
• silverhårig
• silverkandelaber
• silverkanna
• silverkedja
• silverklang
• silverklar
• silverklingande
• silverklocka
• silverkors
• silverkrona
• silverkrycka
• silverlamé
• silverljus
• silverljusstake
• silverlock
• silverlockig
• silvermalm
• silvermedalj
• silvermedaljör
• silvermink
• silvermoln
• silvermynt
• silvermärke
• silverne
• silvernitrat
• silverpeng
• silverpenning
• silverpjäs
• silverplakett
• silverplats
• silverpokal
• silverpoppel
• silverputs
• silverram
• silverring
• silverrova
• silverräv
• silverservis
• silverskatt
• silversked
• silverskimrande
• silversko
• silverskrin
• silverskål
• silverslant
• silversmed
• silversmide
• silversmycke
• silverstake
• silverstrimma
• silverstämpel
• silverstänk
• silvertacka
• silvertallrik
• silverte
• silvertråd
• silvertärna
• silververk
• silvervit
• silvervitt
• silverålder
• silverört
• silvra
• silvrig

References

• silver in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (14th ed., online)