Noun potassium () a soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element (symbol K) with an atomic number of 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983. The symbol is derived from the Latin, Kalium. External links For etymology and more information refer to: http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/elem/be.html (A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author)
Translations Afrikaans: kalium Albanian: kalium Arabic: بوتاسيوم Armenian: caliumu Basque: potasioa Belarussian: калiй Bosnian: kalij Breton: potasiom Breton: kaliom m Bulgarian: калий m Catalan: potassi Chinese: 鉀 Cornish: calyum Croatian: kalij Czech: draslík Danish: kalium Dutch: kalium n, potas f Esperanto: kalio Estonian: kaalium Faroese: kalium Finnish: kalium French: potassium m Frisian: kalium Friulian: potassi Gallegan: potasio Georgian: კალიუმი German: Kalium n Greek: kalion, kalio Hebrew: אשלגן Hungarian: kálium Icelandic: kalín Interlingua: potassium, kalium Irish: potaisiam Italian: potassio m Japanese: カリウム Kashmiri: kali Kazakh: калий Latin: kalium Latvian: kālijs Lithuanian: kalis Luxembourgish: kalium Macedonian: калиум Malay: kalium Maltese: potassjum Manx: potashum Modern Greek: Καλιο Mongolian: кали Norwegian: kalium Polish: potas m Portuguese: potássio m Romanian: potasiu n, kaliu n Russian: калий Scottish Gaelic: potaisiam Serbian: калиjум Slovak: draslík Slovenian: kalij Spanish: potasio m Swedish: kalium Tajik: kali' Thai: โพแทสเซียม Turkish: potasyum Ukrainian: калiй Uzbek: калий Vietnamese: kali Welsh: potasiwm
