جیوه

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Persian

Alternative forms

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)

  1. mercury; quicksilver (metal)

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Borrowed terms

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