It’s Au. The symbol comes from the Latin word for gold, aurum.

Gold has many names including:

Altin(Türkçe)
Aur (Romanian)
Aurum (Latin)
Gold (Deutsch and English)
Goud (Dutch)
Guld (Swedish)
Kulta (Suomi)
Or (Français)
Oro (Español, Italian)
Zoloto (Russian, Ukrainian)
Zahav (Afro-Asiatic languages)

If you want to know more about Element names visit Elementymology & Elements Multidict by Peter van der Krogt.

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