قصدير

Arabic

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qasˤ.diːr/

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Noun

قَصْدِير • (qaṣdīr) m

1. tin

Declension

Declension of noun قَصْدِير (qaṣdīr)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَصْدِير qaṣdīr	الْقَصْدِير al-qaṣdīr	قَصْدِير qaṣdīr
Nominative	قَصْدِيرٌ qaṣdīrun	الْقَصْدِيرُ al-qaṣdīru	قَصْدِيرُ qaṣdīru
Accusative	قَصْدِيرًا qaṣdīran	الْقَصْدِيرَ al-qaṣdīra	قَصْدِيرَ qaṣdīra
Genitive	قَصْدِيرٍ qaṣdīrin	الْقَصْدِيرِ al-qaṣdīri	قَصْدِيرِ qaṣdīri

References

• “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^[1] (in German), volume 51, page 301