جیوه
Persian
Alternative forms
- ژیوه (žive)
Etymology
From Middle Persian [script needed] (*žīwa-), attested in [script needed] (žīwandāg, “mercury”, literally “living metal”), from Old Persian 𐎪𐎺 (jiva), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós. Compare English quick and quicksilver.
Noun
جیوه • (jive)
- mercury; quicksilver (metal)
Synonyms
- سیماب (simâb)
Borrowed terms
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Categories:
- Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian
- Persian terms derived from Middle Persian
- Persian terms inherited from Old Persian
- Persian terms derived from Old Persian
- Persian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Persian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Persian lemmas
- Persian nouns
- fa:Chemical elements