جیوه

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian جیوه (jive, mercury).

Noun

جیوه (cive, cıva)

  1. mercury, quicksilver
    Synonym: سیماب (simab)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: cıva
  • Armenian: ճիվա (čiva)

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جیوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 454
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hydrargyrum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 715
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جیوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 697

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a hypothetical Middle Persian (zywk' /⁠*zīwag⁠/, mercury), whence also Classical Syriac ܙܝܘܓ (zīwag). From Middle Persian (zy(w)ndk' /⁠zīndag, zīwandāg, zībandāg⁠/, living), from (zyw /⁠*zīwa-,*zība-⁠/, live), from Old Persian 𐎪𐎡𐎺 (ji-i-v /⁠jīva⁠/), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós. Compare semantically Latin argentum vivum, Serbo-Croatian živa and English quick and quicksilver. Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian սնդիկ (sndik), Arabic زِئْبَق (ziʔbaq, mercury).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? jīwa
Dari reading? jīwa
Iranian reading? jive
Tajik reading? jiva

Noun

جیوه (jive)

  1. mercury; quicksilver (metal)
    Synonym: سیماب (simâb)

Descendants