دهنج

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian *dahanag (Classical Persian دهنه (dahana)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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دَهْنَج (dahnajm

  1. malachite

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian دهنج (dahnaj, malachite).

Noun

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دهنج (dehnec)

  1. (mineralogy) malachite, a bright green mineral and one of the principal ores of copper.
    Synonym: باقر طاشی (bakır taşı)

Further reading

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  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Molochites”, 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[1], Vienna, column 1072
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دهنج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 2204
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دهنج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 931