رصاص

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ر ص ص‎ (r-ṣ-ṣ). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ra.sˤaːsˤ/
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Noun

رَصَاص • (raṣāṣ) m (collective, singulative رَصَاصَة‎ f (raṣāṣa))

  1. lead
    Synonyms: رَصَاص أَسْوَد‎ (raṣāṣ ʔaswad), أُسْرُب‎ (ʔusrub), آنُك‎ (ʔānuk), أَبَار‎ (ʔabār)
  2. (obsolete) tin
    Synonyms: رَصَاص أَبْيَض‎ (raṣāṣ ʔabyaḍ), رَصَاص قَلَعِيّ‎ (raṣāṣ qalaʕiyy), قَصْدِير‎ (qaṣdīr)
  3. bullets, shots, dots

Declension

Descendants

  • → Acholi: ràcáàc
  • → Alur: risasi
  • → Middle Armenian: ռիսաս (ṙisas)
  • → Bari: rasas
  • → Bende: iisaáse
  • → Dinka: rasas
  • → Lingala: masási
  • → Lotuko: arryas
  • → Luba-Katanga: disashi
  • → Luo: racac
  • → Matengo: lisâsi
  • → Rukiga: rusasi
  • → Rwanda-Rundi: isâsu
  • → Sango: lichasi
  • → Swahili: risasi
    • → Digo: risasi
    • → Jita: ri-saási
    • → Kikuyu: rĩthathi
    • → Luganda: `ssasì
    • → Nyakyusa: ilísasí
    • → Nyankole: iːsási, amasási, kisási
  • → Zande: lisasi

References

  • Baldi, Sergio (2020-11-30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 121–122 Nr. 1083
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 152
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “رصاص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1092
  • Siddiqi, Abdussattar (1919) Studien über die Persischen Fremdwörter im klassischen Arabisch (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 38–39
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “رصاص”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 416
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “رصاص”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 396
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