- narcissus=نرجس
- ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- narcissus (n.)
- type of bulbous flowering plant, 1540s, from L. narcissus, from Gk. narkissos "the narcissus," perhaps from a pre-Greek Aegean word, but associated with Gk. narke "numbness" (see narcotic) because of the sedative effect of the alkaloids in the plant.
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narcissus=نرجس
narcissism=النرجسية
- narcissism=النرجسية
- ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- narcissism (n.)
- 1905, from Ger. Narzissismus, coined 1899 (in "Die sexuellen Perversitäten"), by German psychiatrist Paul Näcke (1851-1913), on a comparison suggested 1898 by Havelock Ellis, from Gk. Narkissos, name of a beautiful youth in mythology (Ovid, "Metamorphoses," iii.370) who fell in love with his own reflection in a spring and was turned to the flower narcissus (q.v.). Coleridge used the word in a letter from 1822.
But already Krishna, enamoured of himself, had resolved to experience lust for his own self; he manifested his own Nature in the cow-herd girls and enjoyed them." [Karapatri, "Lingopasana-rahasya," Siddhanta, II, 1941-2]
- Sometimes erroneously as narcism.
naphtha=النفط
- naphtha=النفط
- ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- naphtha (n.)
- inflammable liquid distilled from petroleum, 1570s, from Latin, from Gk. naphtha "bitumen," perhaps from Persian neft "pitch," or Aramaic naphta, nephta, but these could as well be from Greek. In Middle English as napte (late 14c.), from Old French napte, but the modern word is a re-introduction.
- WIKIPEDIA
The word
naphtha came from Latin and Greek where it derived from
Persian.[2]
In Ancient
Greek, it was used to refer to any sort of petroleum
or pitch.
It appears in Arabic as "nafţ" (نَفْط)
("petroleum"), and in Hebrew as "neft" (נֵפְט).
Arabs and Persians have used and distilled petroleum for tar and fuel
from ancient times, as attested in local Greek and Roman histories of
the region.[citation
needed]
The second
book of the Maccabees in the Septuagint,
part of the Old
Testament canon
in the major Christian denominations: Latin and Greek Catholic, and
Greek and Russian Orthodox, uses the word "naphtha" to
refer to a miraculously flammable liquid. This account says that
Nehemiah and the
levitical
priests associated with him called the liquid "nephthar,"
meaning "purification," but "most people" call it
naphtha(or Nephi).[3]-
- NEW WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA
The origin of the word naphtha
is unclear. It was an ancient Greek word that referred to any type of
petroleum
or pitch. The Greeks themselves borrowed the word from the Old
Persian words nafata, naft, or neft, which were
used to describe bubbling oil. Naphtha may also have been derived
from the name of the Vedic
Hindu
god Apam Napat, the god of freshwater, sometimes described as a fire
god.
nanotechnology=تكنولوجيا النانو
- nanotechnology=تكنولوجيا النانو
- ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- nanotechnology (n.)
- by 1974, from nano- + technology.
- introduced 1947 (at 14th conference of the Union Internationale de Chimie) as a prefix for units of one thousand-millionth part, from Gk. nanos "a dwarf." According to Watkins, this is originally "little old man," from nannos "uncle," masc. of nanna "aunt" (see nana). Earlier it was used as a prefix to mean "dwarf, dwarfish," and still in a non-scientific sense of "very small."
- 1610s, "discourse or treatise on an art or the arts," from Gk. tekhnologia "systematic treatment of an art, craft, or technique," originally referring to grammar, from tekhno- (see techno-) + -logy. The meaning "science of the mechanical and industrial arts" is first recorded 1859. High technology attested from 1964; short form high-tech is from 1972.
nanometer=نانومتر
- nanometer=نانومتر
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- ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- nanometer (n.)
- introduced 1947 (at 14th conference of the Union Internationale de Chimie) as a prefix for units of one thousand-millionth part, from Gk. nanos "a dwarf." According to Watkins, this is originally "little old man," from nannos "uncle," masc. of nanna "aunt" (see nana). Earlier it was used as a prefix to mean "dwarf, dwarfish," and still in a non-scientific sense of "very small."
- meter (n.2)
- also metre, unit of length, 1797, from Fr. mètre (18c.), from Gk. metron "measure," from PIE root *me- "to measure" (cf. Gk. metra "lot, portion," Skt. mati "measures," matra "measure," Avestan, O.Pers. ma-, L. metri "to measure"). Developed by French Academy of Sciences for system of weights and measures based on a decimal system originated 1670 by French clergyman Gabriel Mouton. Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the meridian.
oxide=أكسيد
oxide=أكسيد
ONLINE
ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY
- gaseous chemical element, 1790,
from Fr. oxygène, coined in 1777 by French chemist Antoine-Laurent
Lavoisier (1743-1794), from Gk. oxys "sharp, acid" (see
acrid)
+ Fr. -gène "something that produces" (from Gk. -genes
"formation, creation;" see -gen).
Intended to mean "acidifying (principle)," it was a Greeking of Fr. principe acidifiant. So called because oxygen was then considered essential in the formation of acids (it is now known not to be). The element was isolated by Priestley (1774), who, using the old model of chemistry, called it dephlogisticated air. The downfall of the phlogiston theory required a new name, which Lavoisier provided.
oxalic=الأكساليك
حامض الأكساليك
ONLINE
ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY
- 1791, from Fr. oxalique (1787, Lavoisier), from L. oxalis "sorrel," from Gk. oxalis, from oxys "sharp" (see acrid). So called because it occurs in sorrel.
WIKIPEDIA
Oxalic
acid is an organic
compound with the formula
H2C2O4. It is a colorless
crystalline solid that dissolves in water to give colorless
solutions. It is classified as a dicarboxylic
acid
ouzo=وزو
ONLINE
ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY
- ouzo (n.)
- liquor flavored with aniseed, 1898, from Mod.Gk. ouzo, of uncertain origin. One theory [OED] is that it derives from It. uso Massalia, lit. "for Marsailles," which was stamped on selected packages of silkworm cocoons being shipped from Thessaly, and came to be taken for "of superior quality."
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