calamina
Spanish, noun/kalaˈmina/
calamina is spelled C-A-L-A-M-I-N-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 123,873rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calamina is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “calamine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Carbonato de cinc anhidro, pétreo, blanco o amarillento, a veces teñido por el hierro de amarillo pardo o de…”.
What does calamina mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecalamine
- 2
femininemetal roof tile or shingle
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Carbonato de cinc anhidro, pétreo, blanco o amarillento, a veces teñido por el hierro de amarillo pardo o de rojo, y que es la mena generalmente empleada para extraer el cinc. 2. Cinc fundido. 3. Aleación de cinc con plomo y estaño. 4. Material de construcción, compuesto por una mezcla de cemento con asbesto, empleado principalmente en forma de planchas onduladas para cubrir el techo.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of calamina
- calaminas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calamina?
- /kalaˈmina/
- [ka.laˈmi.na]
- [kalaˈmina]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calamina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calamina in Spanish?
calamina appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).