köken: Borrowed from Russian металлурги́я (metallurgíja), from French métallurgie, from Ancient Greek μεταλλουργός (metallourgós, “worker in metal”), from μέταλλον (métallon, “metal”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
Málmvinnsla er ferlið við að breyta stærð eða eiginleikum vinnustykkis með vélrænni búnaði.
Etimoloji
Sino-Vietnamese word from 鍊 (“to smelt”) and 金 (“gold; metal”). Compare Chinese 鍊金術 /炼金术 (luyện kim thuật, “alchemy”, literally “the art of smelting gold”), Japanese 錬金術 (renkinjutsu, “alchemy”), Korean 연금술 (yeon'geumsul, “alchemy”). Also compare Chinese 冶金學 /冶金学 (dã kim học, “metallurgy”).