خارصين

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Arabic

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Etymology

From Persian خارچینی (xâr-čini), composed of خار (xâr) for خارا (xârâ, hard stone) + چینی (čini, Chinese).

Pronunciation

Noun

خَارَصِين (ḵāraṣīnm

  1. (obsolete) paktong, tutenag (an alloy of zinc, nickel and copper)
    Synonyms: تُوتِيَاء مَعْدِنِيّ (tūtiyāʔ maʕdiniyy), رُوح تُوتِيَاء (rūḥ tūtiyāʔ)
    • 975–997, محمد بن أحمد الخوارزمي [muḥammad ibn ʕaḥmad al-ḵwārizmī], edited by Gerlof van Vloten, مفاتيح العلوم [mafātīḥ al-ʕulūm], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1895, page 258 line 7:
    • a. 1442, Al-Maqrīzī, edited by Fabian Käs, كتاب المقاصد السنية لمعرفة الأجسام المعدنية [Kitāb al-Maqāṣid al-saniyyah li-maʿrifat al-aǧsām al-maʿdiniyyah], Leiden: Brill, published 2015, →ISBN, page 68:
      فالمتطرقة هي الأجساد السبعة التي يقال لها الفلزات، وهي الذهب والفضة والنحاس والرصاص والحديد والأُسْرُب والخارصيني.
      And those which can be driven by the hammer are the seven bodies called metals. They are gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, lead, and paktong.
  2. zinc
    Synonyms: تُوتِيَاء (tūtiyāʔ), زِنْك (zink)

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