Alaun
German, noun/aˈlaʊ̯n/
Alaun is spelled A-L-A-U-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 116,815th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alaun is a German masculine noun meaning “alum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “schwefelsaures Doppelsalz meist von Kalium oder Aluminium, das zum Beizen, Färben und zum Stillen von…”.
What does Alaun mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealum
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. schwefelsaures Doppelsalz meist von Kalium oder Aluminium, das zum Beizen, Färben und zum Stillen von Blutungen verwendet wird
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Alaun
- Alauns genitive
- Alaune plural
- Alaunen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Alaun?
- /aˈlaʊ̯n/
- [aˈlaʊ̯n]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Alaun
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Alaun in German?
Alaun appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).