قصدير

From Aramaic קְסְטִירָא‎ (qəsṭīrā), קַסִּיטְרָא‎ (qassīṭrā, “tin”), from Ancient Greek κασσίτερον (kassíteron), κασσίτερος (kassíteros, “tin”, literally “the metal or earth from the land of the Kassi”); ultimately of obscure origin, considered of pre-Greek substrate. Identification and the meaning of κασσί (kassí) has been disputed; see Kassites, a historically significant bronze age people from the Zagros Mountains, the nearest source of Mesopotamian tin – which could relate us to مَرْقَشِيتَا‎ (marqašītā, “marcasite”) –, and the Cassiterides and cassiterite.

• IPA^(key): /qasˤ.diːr/

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قَصْدِير • (qaṣdīr) m

1. tin

• “qsyṭr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “قصدير” in Almaany
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 153
• Vollers, Karl (1897), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 51, page 301

Learned borrowing from Arabic قَصْدِير‎ (qaṣdīr).

• IPA^(key): /qasˤ.diːr/, [qɑzˤˈdˤiːrˤ]
• IPA^(key): (Urban) /ʔasˤ.diːr/, [ʔɑzˤˈdˤiːrˤ]
• IPA^(key): (Bedouin) /ɡasˤ.diːr/, [ɡɑzˤˈdˤiːrˤ]

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قصدير • (ʔaṣdīr) m

1. (uncountable) tin