سیماب

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian سیماب (simâb, “mercury”).

Noun

سیماب • (simab)

  1. 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
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [siː.mɑ́ːb]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [siː.mɑ́ːb]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [si.mɔ́ːb̥]

Readings
Classical reading? sīmāḇ
Dari reading? sīmāb
Iranian reading? simâb
Tajik reading? simob

Noun
Dari سیماب
Iranian Persian
Tajik симоб

سیماب • (simâb)

  1. 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.

Derived terms
  • سیمابی (simâbi)

Descendants
  • → Kazakh: сынап (synap)
  • → Kyrgyz: сымап (sımap)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: سیماب (sîmâb)
  • → Turkmen: simap
  • → Uyghur: سىماب (simab)
  • → Uzbek: simob
  • → Kashmiri: sīmāb
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