جیوه
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian جیوه (jive, “mercury”).
Noun
جیوه • (cive, cıva)
- mercury, quicksilver
- Synonym: سیماب (simab)
Derived terms
- جیوهلو (civeli, cıvali, “prepared with quicksilver”)
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
- ژیوه (žive)
Etymology
From a hypothetical Middle Persian [script needed] (zywk' /*zīwag/, “mercury”), whence also Classical Syriac ܙܝܘܓ (zīwag). From Middle Persian [script needed] (zy(w)ndk' /zīndag, zīwandāg, zībandāg/, “living”), from [script needed] (zyw /*zīwa-,*zība-/, “live”), from Old Persian 𐎪𐎡𐎺 (ji-i-v /jīva/), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós. Compare semantically English quick and quicksilver. Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian սնդիկ (sndik), Arabic زِئْبَق (ziʾbaq, “mercury”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiːwa/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiːwa/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiːve/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiva/
Noun
جیوه • (jive)
- mercury; quicksilver (metal)
- Synonym: سیماب (simâb)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: civə
- → Ottoman Turkish: جیوه (cive, cıva)
- → Turkish: cıva