خارصين

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Persian خارچینی (xâr-čini), composed of خار (xâr) for خارا (xârâ, hard stone) + چینی (čini, Chinese).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xaː.ra.sˤiːn/

Noun

خَارَصِين (ḵāraṣīn) m

  1. (obsolete) paktong, tutenag (an alloy of zinc, nickle and copper)
    • 975–997, محمد بن أحمد الخوارزمي [muḥammad ibn ʾaḥmad al-ḵwārizmī], Gerlof van Vloten, editor, مفاتيح العلوم [mafātīḥ al-ʿulūm], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1895, page 258 line 7:
    • a. 1442, Al-Maqrīzī, Fabian Käs, editor, كتاب المقاصد السنية لمعرفة الأجسام المعدنية [Kitāb al-Maqāṣid al-saniyyah li-maʿrifat al-aǧsām al-maʿdiniyyah], Leiden: Brill, published 2015, →ISBN, page 68:
      فالمتطرقة هي الأجساد السبعة التي يقال لها الفلزات، وهي الذهب والفضة والنحاس والرصاص والحديد والأُسْرُب والخارصيني.
      And those which can be driven by the hammer are the seven bodies called metals. They are gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, lead, and paktong.
    Synonyms: تُوتِيَاء مَعْدِنِيّ (tūtiyāʔ maʕdiniyy), رُوح تُوتِيَاء (rūḥ tūtiyāʔ)
  2. zinc
    Synonyms: تُوتِيَاء (tūtiyāʔ), زِنْك (zink)

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