سیماب

From Persian سیماب‎ (simâb, “mercury”).

سیماب • (simab)

1. mercury, quicksilver

   Synonym: جیوه‎ (cive, cıva)

• سیمابی‎ (simabi, “prepared with quicksilver”)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سیماب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 710
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Hydrargyrum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 715
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سیماب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2737–2738
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سیماب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1103

From سیم‎ (sim, “silver”) +‎ آب‎ (âb, “water”). Semantically, compare e.g. Ancient Greek ὑδράργυρος (hudrárguros), Chinese 水銀／水银 (shuǐyín).

سیماب • (simâb)

1. quicksilver, mercury (type of metal)

   Synonyms: جیوه‎ (jive), زیبق‎ (zeybaq)

   • 1732—1733, Lāla Amānat Rāy, “جلوه ذات [Jelve-ye Zât]”, in Stefano Pellò, transl., Black Curls in a Mirror: The Eighteenth-Century Persian Kṛṣṇa of Lāla Amānat Rāy’s Jilwa-yi ẕāt and the Tongue of Bīdil, International Journal of Hindu Studies (2018) 22:

     ‏زمین از جلوه سرشار مهتاب تموج داشت همچون آب سیماب‎

     zamin az jelve-ye saršâr-e mahtâb tamavvoj dâšt hamčon âb-e simâb

     With the inebriated epiphany of moonlight, the earth made a wave-like movement, resembling quicksilver.

• سیمابی‎ (simâbi)