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").

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

thiamin=الثيامين

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thiamin=الثيامين

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:


thiamin
also thiamine, alternative name for vitamin B1, 1937, coined by Dr. R.R. Williams from thio-, indicating the presence of sulfur, comb. form of Gk. theion "sulfur," + amine, indicating the amino group. Or the second element might be from vitamin.

Bionics=الـبيونيك


Bionics=الـبيونيك

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

bionics (n.)
1959, from bio- + second element from electronic; also see -ics.

bionic (adj.)
1901, as a term in the study of fossils, from Gk. bios "life" (see bio-). Meaning "pertaining to bionics" is recorded from 1963. Popular sense of "superhumanly gifted or durable" is from 1976, from popular U.S. television program "The Bionic Man" and its spin-offs.
bio-
word-forming element, from Gk. bio-, comb. form of bios "one's life, course or way of living, lifetime" (as opposed to zoe "animal life, organic life"), from PIE root *gweie- "to live" (cf. Skt. jivah "alive, living;" O.E. cwic "alive;" L. vivus "living, alive," vita "life;" M.Pers. zhiwak "alive;" O.C.S. zivo "to live;" Lith. gyvas "living, alive;" O.Ir. bethu "life," bith "age;" Welsh byd "world"). Equivalent of L. vita. The correct usage is that in biography, but in modern science it has been extended to mean "organic life."
WIKIPEDIA:

The word bionic was coined by Jack E. Steele in 1958, possibly originating from the technical term bion (pronounced bee-on) (from Ancient Greek: βίος), meaning 'unit of life' and the suffix -ic, meaning 'like' or 'in the manner of', hence 'like life'. Some dictionaries, however, explain the word as being formed as a portmanteau from biology + electronics.


The term biology is derived from the Greek word βίος, bios, "life" and the suffix -λογία, -logia, "study of."[4] The Latin form of the term first appeared in 1736 when Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) used biologi in his Bibliotheca botanica. It was used again in 1766 in a work entitled Philosophiae naturalis sive physicae: tomus III, continens geologian, biologian, phytologian generalis, by Michael Christoph Hanov, a disciple of Christian Wolff