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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian سیماب (simâb, “mercury”).
Noun
سیماب • (simab)
- mercury, quicksilver
- Synonym: جیوه (cive, cıva)
Derived terms
- سیمابی (simabi, “prepared with quicksilver”)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیماب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 710
- 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
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سیماب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2737–2738
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیماب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1103
Persian
Etymology
From سیم (sim, “silver”) + آب (âb, “water”). Semantically, compare e.g. Ancient Greek ὑδράργυρος (hudrárguros), Chinese 水銀／水银 (shuǐyín).
Pronunciation
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sīmāḇ
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sīmāb
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| Iranian reading?
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simâb
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| Tajik reading?
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simob
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Noun
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سیماب
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симоб
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سیماب • (simâb)
- quicksilver, mercury (type of metal)
- Synonyms: جیوه (jive), زیبق (zeybaq)
1732—1733, Lāla Amānat Rāy, “جلوه ذات [Jelve-ye Zât]”, in Stefano Pellò, transl., Black Curls in a Mirror: The Eighteenth-Century Persian Kṛṣṇa of Lāla Amānat Rāy’s Jilwa-yi ẕāt and the Tongue of Bīdil, International Journal of Hindu Studies (2018) 22:زمین از جلوه سرشار مهتاب تموج داشت همچون آب سیماب- zamin az jelve-ye saršâr-e mahtâb tamavvoj dâšt hamčon âb-e simâb
- With the inebriated epiphany of moonlight, the earth made a wave-like movement, resembling quicksilver.
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