جیوه

جیوه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian جیوه‎ (jive, “mercury”).

Noun

جیوه • (cive, cıva)

1. 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

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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)

1. mercury; quicksilver (metal)

   Synonym: سیماب‎ (simâb)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: civə
• → Ottoman Turkish: جیوه‎ (cive, cıva)
  • → Turkish: cıva