صیچان اوتی
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From صیچان (sıçan, “mouse”) + اوت (ot, “grass, herb”).
Noun
[edit]- arsenic, a metalloid chemical element, with an atomic number of 33
Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: սըչան օթի (səčʻan ōtʻi)
Further reading
[edit]- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سچان اوتی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 265a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیچان اوتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 777
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Arsenicum”, 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[3], Vienna, column 87
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سچان اوتی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 2556
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیچان اوتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1198