Wednesday, 24 October 2012

الزنجفر cinnabar

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Etymology of Arabic words: the word الزنجفر
(zinzafr) means cinnabar ( is the common ore of mercury) and derives from the greek language. The name comes from κινναβαρι (kinnabari), a Greek word most likely applied by Theophrastus to several distinct substances.

P.S.
Theophrastus (Greek: Θεόφραστος; c. 371 – c. 287 BC[1]), a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school




 

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