Saturday, 1 December 2012

macaroni=معكرونة

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macaroni=معكرونة

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

macaroni (n.)
"tube-shaped food made of dried wheaten paste" [Klein], 1590s, from southern Italian dialectal maccaroni (It. maccheroni), plural of maccarone, name for a kind of pasty food, possibly from maccare "bruise, batter, crush," of unknown origin, or from late Gk. makaria "food made from barley." Used after c.1764 to mean "fop, dandy" (e.g. "Yankee Doodle") because it was an exotic dish at a time when certain young men who had traveled the continent were affecting French and Italian fashions and accents. There is said to have been a Macaroni Club in Britain, which was the immediate source of the term.
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“””””””μεσ. ελληνική λέξη “μακαρωνία” (: νεκρώσιμο δείπνο με βάση τα ζυμαρικά). Η μακαρωνία με τη σειρά της έρχεται από την αρχαία ελληνική λέξη “μακαρία”, που δεν ήταν άλλο από την ψυχόπιτα, δηλαδή, ένα κομμάτι άρτου, στο σχήμα του μελομακάρονου, το οποίο το προσέφεραν μετά την κηδεία”””””


“”””””medieval Greek word "makaronia" (: funeral dinner based pasta). The makaronia in turn comes from the ancient Greek word “μακαρία=  "blessed", which was none other than the psychopita=pie for the souls, ie, a piece of bread in the shape of melomakaronou=honey+cookies, which offered after the funeral””””””
















Friday, 30 November 2012

Apocrypha=الأبوكريفا


Apocrypha=الأبوكريفا

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

Apocrypha
late 14c., neuter plural of L.L. apocryphus "secret, not approved for public reading," from Gk. apokryphos "hidden; obscure," thus "(books) of unknown authorship" (especially those included in the Septuagint and Vulgate but not originally written in Hebrew and not counted as genuine by the Jews), from apo- "away" (see apo-) + kryptein "to hide" (see crypt). Properly plural (the single would be Apocryphon or apocryphum), but commonly treated as a collective singular.


apo-
before vowels, ap-, prefix meaning "from, away from, separate, free from," from Gk. apo "from, away from; after; in descent from," in compounds, "from, asunder, away, off; finishing, completing; ceasing from; back again," from PIE root *apo- "off, away" (cf. Skt. apa "away from," Avestan apa "away from," L. ab "away from, from," Goth. af, O.E. of "away from").
crypt (n.)
early 15c., "grotto, cavern," from L. crypta "vault, cavern," from Gk. krypte (short for krypte kamara "hidden vault"), fem. of kryptos "hidden," verbal adj. from kryptein "to hide," from PIE *krau- "to conceal, hide" (cf. O.C.S. kryjo, kryti "to hide"). Meaning "underground burial vault or chapel in a church" first attested 1789.

pyrolusite=بيرولوزيت


pyrolusite=بيرولوزيت

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

pyrolusite (n.)
"manganese dioxide," the name given in Roman times, when it was used, in a heated state, to decolorize glass, from Greek elements pyro- "by heat, by fire" (see pyro-) + lysis "a loosening" (see lose).
pyro-
word-forming element form meaning "fire," from Gk. pyro-, combining form of pyr (gen. pyros) "fire" (see fire (n.)).

lose (v.)
O.E. losian "be lost, perish," from los "destruction, loss," from P.Gmc. *lausa- (cf. O.N. los "the breaking up of an army;" O.E. forleosan "to lose, destroy," O.Fris. forliasa, O.S. farliosan, M.Du. verliesen, O.H.G. firliosan, Ger. verlieren), from PIE root *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart, untie, separate" (cf. Skt. lunati "cuts, cuts off," lavitram "sickle;" Gk. lyein "to loosen, untie, slacken," lysus "a loosening;" L. luere "to loose, release, atone for, expiate").