amalgam

From Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic اَلْمَلْغَم (al-malḡam, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), from μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”), from μαλακός (malakós, “soft”). Doublet of malagma. For the verb, compare French amalgamer.

• IPA^(key): /əˈmæl.ɡəm/
• Hyphenation: a‧mal‧gam

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amalgam (countable and uncountable, plural amalgams)

1. (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
2. A combination of different things.
   • 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149:

     This was the Ambergate, Nottingham & Boston & Eastern Junction Railway, an amalgam of a number of separate schemes put forward in 1845, which secured its Act on July 16, 1846.

3. One of the ingredients in an alloy.

• alloy, blend, combo, compound, conglomerate, mixture

• amalgamate
• amalgamation

amalgam (third-person singular simple present amalgams, present participle amalgaming, simple past and past participle amalgamed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To amalgamate (something) with a thing.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     gold t’amalgam with some six of mercury

   • 1684, Robert Boyle, “An Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies. Chapter VIII.”, in Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays, London: […] Sam[uel] Smith […], →OCLC, page 143:

     […] I had once occaſion to diſtil in a ſmall Retort ſome Gold amalgamed vvith ſuch a fine and ſubtile Mercury, that being (vvithout the addition of any Salt) put to the Gold in the cold, they preſently grevv hot together.

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “amalgam”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Amalgam”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “amalgam”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
• “amalgam”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• malagma

amalgam n (genitive singular amalgams, no plural)

1. amalgam

From Dutch amalgaam, from French amalgame, from Latin amalgama, from Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic اَلْمَلْغَم (al-malḡam, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), from μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”), from μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈamalɡam]
• Hyphenation: amal‧gam

amalgam (first-person possessive amalgamku, second-person possessive amalgammu, third-person possessive amalgamnya)

1. amalgam:
   1. (chemistry) an alloy containing mercury.
   2. (dentistry) material of silver tooth fillings.

• “amalgam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

amalgam (Jawi spelling املݢم, plural amalgam-amalgam, informal 1st possessive amalgamku, 2nd possessive amalgammu, 3rd possessive amalgamnya)

1. (metallurgy) amalgam

• “amalgam” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• amalgama (obsolete)

Internationalism; compare English amalgam. Possibly borrowed from German Amalgam, French amalgame, or Spanish amalgama,[1][2] ultimately from Medieval Latin amalgama, from Arabic الْمَلْغَم (al-malḡam), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma).[3] First attested in 1771.[4]

• IPA^(key): /aˈmal.ɡam/
• Rhymes: -alɡam
• Syllabification: a‧mal‧gam

amalgam m inan

1. (metallurgy) amalgam (alloy containing mercury)

   Synonyms: amalgamat, ortęć

2. (literary) amalgam (combination of different things)

   Synonyms: aliaż, amalgamat, melanż, mieszanina, mieszanka

• amalgam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “amalgam”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “amalgam”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “amalgam”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 29
• amalgam in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Borrowed from French amalgame, from Latin amalgama.

• IPA^(key): /a.mal.ˈɡam/
• Rhymes: -am
• Hyphenation: a‧mal‧gam

amalgam n (plural amalgame)

1. amalgam

• IPA^(key): /amǎlɡaːm/
• Hyphenation: a‧mal‧gam

amàlgām m (Cyrillic spelling ама̀лга̄м)

1. amalgam

amalgam n

1. amalgam