zenit

See also: Zenit, zénit, ženit, and ženiť

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [zəˈnit]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [zeˈnit]
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

zenit m (plural zenits)

1. zenith

Further reading

• “zenit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “zenit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “zenit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “zenit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun

zenit

1. zenith

Declension

Declension of zenit

	singular	plural
nominative	zenit	zenitler
genitive	zenitniñ	zenitlerniñ
dative	zenitke	zenitlerge
accusative	zenitni	zenitlerni
locative	zenitte	zenitlerde
ablative	zenitten	zenitlerden

References

• “zenit”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin zenit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɛnɪt]

Noun

zenit m inan

1. zenith

   Synonym: nadhlavník

Declension

Declension of zenit (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	zenit	zenity
genitive	zenitu	zenitů
dative	zenitu	zenitům
accusative	zenit	zenity
vocative	zenite	zenity
locative	zenitu	zenitech
instrumental	zenitem	zenity

Further reading

• “zenit”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “zenit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cenit (see further there).

Noun

zenit

1. (uncountable) zenith

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cenit, from Old Spanish [Term?], from Arabic سَمْت (samt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzeːnɪt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ze‧nit

Noun

zenit n (uncountable)

1. (astronomy) zenith

Related terms

• azimut

Anagrams

• inzet, zet in

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zenit, from Medieval Latin cenit, a transliteration of Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”) which is in itself a weak abbreviation of سَمْت الرَأْس (samt ar-raʔs, “direction of the head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɛnit]
• Hyphenation: ze‧nit
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

zenit (plural zenitek)

1. (astronomy) zenith (point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir)
2. (figuratively) zenith (highest point or state; peak)

   Synonyms: csúcspont, tetőpont

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	zenit	zenitek
accusative	zenitet	zeniteket
dative	zenitnek	zeniteknek
instrumental	zenittel	zenitekkel
causal-final	zenitért	zenitekért
translative	zenitté	zenitekké
terminative	zenitig	zenitekig
essive-formal	zenitként	zenitekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	zenitben	zenitekben
superessive	zeniten	zeniteken
adessive	zenitnél	zeniteknél
illative	zenitbe	zenitekbe
sublative	zenitre	zenitekre
allative	zenithez	zenitekhez
elative	zenitből	zenitekből
delative	zenitről	zenitekről
ablative	zenittől	zenitektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	zenité	zeniteké
non-attributive possessive – plural	zenitéi	zenitekéi

Possessive forms of zenit

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	zenitem	zenitjeim
2nd person sing.	zenited	zenitjeid
3rd person sing.	zenitje	zenitjei
1st person plural	zenitünk	zenitjeink
2nd person plural	zenitetek	zenitjeitek
3rd person plural	zenitjük	zenitjeik

Further reading

• zenit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Noun

zenit (plural zenit-zenit)

1. zenith

Italian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cenit, a transliteration of Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”) which is in itself a weak abbreviation of سَمْت الرَأْس (samt ar-raʔs, “direction of the head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zɛ.nit/
• Rhymes: -ɛnit
• Hyphenation: zè‧nit

Noun

zenit m

1. (astronomy) zenith

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Spanish zenit, from Medieval Latin cenit, from Arabic سَمْت (samt), from Aramaic סֵימִטָא (sēmiṭā) from Latin sēmĭta, from Proto-Italic *sēmitā, from Proto-Indo-European *swé + *mey- + *-tós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛ.ɲit/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɲit
• Syllabification: ze‧nit

Noun

zenit m inan

1. (astronomy) zenith (point vertically above a position or observer)

   Synonym: apogeum

   Antonym: nadir

2. (astronomy) zenith (highest point reached by a celestial body)
3. zenith (highest point or state; peak)

   Synonyms: maks, maksimum

   Antonym: minimum

Declension

Declension of zenit

	singular
nominative	zenit
genitive	zenitu
dative	zenitowi
accusative	zenit
instrumental	zenitem
locative	zenicie
vocative	zenicie

Derived terms

(adjectives):

• zenitalny
• zenitowy

(nouns):

• zenitka
• zenitówka

Further reading

• zenit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zenit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French zénith.

Noun

zenit n (uncountable)

1. zenith

Declension

Declension of zenit

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	zenit	zenitul
genitive-dative	zenit	zenitului
vocative	zenitule

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zěniːt/
• Hyphenation: ze‧nit

Noun

zènīt m (Cyrillic spelling зѐнӣт)

1. zenith

Declension

Declension of zenit

	singular	plural
nominative	zènīt	zeniti
genitive	zeníta	zenita
dative	zenitu	zenitima
accusative	zenit	zenite
vocative	zenite	zeniti
locative	zenitu	zenitima
instrumental	zenitom	zenitima

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tseˈnit/ [t̪seˈnit̪]
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

zenit m (plural zenit)

1. Alternative spelling of cenit

Further reading

• “zenit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

zenit n

1. (astronomy) zenith