سیماب

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian سیماب (simâb, “mercury”).

Noun

سیماب • (simab)

1. mercury, quicksilver

   Synonym: جیوه (cive, cıva)

Derived terms

• سیمابی (simabi, “prepared with quicksilver”)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیماب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, columns 2737–2738
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیماب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1103

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [siː.ˈmɑːβ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [siː.mɑ́ːb]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [siː.mɑ́ːb]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [siː.mɑ́ːb]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [si.mɔ́ːb̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [siː.mɒ́ːb̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [si.mɔ́b]

Readings
Classical reading?	sīmāḇ
Dari reading?	sīmāb
Iranian reading?	simâb
Tajik reading?	simob

Noun

Dari	سیماب
Iranian Persian
Tajik	симоб

سیماب • (simâb)

1. quicksilver, mercury (type of metal)

   Synonyms: جیوه (jive), زیبق (zeybaq)

   • 1732—1733, Lāla Amānat Rāy, “جلوه ذات”, 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.

Derived terms

• سیمابی (simâbi)

Descendants

• → Kazakh: сынап (synap)
• → Kyrgyz: сымап (sımap)
• → Ottoman Turkish: سیماب (sîmâb)
• → Turkmen: simap
• → Uyghur: سىماب (simab)
• → Uzbek: simob
• → Kashmiri: sīmāb