كبريت

See also: كبریت and کبریت

Arabic

Chemical element (edit)
S Atomic number 16 كِبْرِيت (kibrīt)
Classification data Period 3 Group 16 Block p-block Class nonmetal
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Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic כִּבְּרִיתָא (kiḇrīṯā) / ܟܶܒܪܺܝܬܳܐ (kĕḇrīṯā, “sulfur”), from Akkadian 𒆠𒀀𒀭𒀀𒇉 (kibrītu, “sulfur; firebrand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kib.riːt/

Noun

كِبْرِيت • (kibrīt) m

1. sulfur
2. match (device to make fire)

Declension

Declension of noun كِبْرِيت (kibrīt)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	كِبْرِيت kibrīt	الْكِبْرِيت al-kibrīt	كِبْرِيت kibrīt
nominative	كِبْرِيتٌ kibrītun	الْكِبْرِيتُ al-kibrītu	كِبْرِيتُ kibrītu
accusative	كِبْرِيتًا kibrītan	الْكِبْرِيتَ al-kibrīta	كِبْرِيتَ kibrīta
genitive	كِبْرِيتٍ kibrītin	الْكِبْرِيتِ al-kibrīti	كِبْرِيتِ kibrīti

Derived terms

• كِبْرِيتِيّ (kibrītiyy, “sulfuric”)
• كِبْرِيتِيد (kibrītīd, “sulfid”)
• كِبْرِيتَات (kibrītāt, “sulfate”)
• كِبْرِيتِيك (kibrītīk)

Descendants

• Gulf Arabic: چِبْرِيت (čibrīt)
• Hijazi Arabic: كبريت (kabrīt, kibrīt)
• Maltese: kubrit
• → Azerbaijani: kibrit
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kirpît, kifrît

  Southern Kurdish: کرمیت (kirmît), کرویت (kruyt)

• → Middle Armenian: քիպրիթ (kʻipritʻ), քպիրթ (kʻpirtʻ)
• → Ottoman Turkish: كبریت (kibrit)
  • Turkish: kibrit
  • → Albanian: qibrit
  • → Armenian: քիբրիթ (kʻibritʻ)
  • → Bulgarian: кибрит (kibrit)
  • → Laz: ქიფრიტი (kipriťi), ჩიპიტი (çip̌iťi) — Atina, ჩირპიტი (çirp̌iťi) — Vizha, ჩიბრიტი (çibriťi) — Okordule, ქირპიტი (kirp̌iťi) — Vitse
  • → Macedonian: кибрит (kibrit)
  • → Romanian: chibrit
• → Persian: کبریت (kebrit)
• → Swahili: kiberiti
  • → Kikuyu: kĩbiriti
• → Zazaki: kıbrit

References

• “كبريت” in Almaany
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886), Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 153
• Goltz, Dietlinde (1972), Studien zur Geschichte der Mineralnamen in Pharmazie, Chemie und Medizin von den Anfängen bis Paracelsus (Sudhoffs Archiv. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Beiheft 14), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 77
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “كبريت”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[1] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1083

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic كِبْرِيت (kibrīt).

Noun

كبريت • (kabrīt) m

1. sulfur
2. match (device to make fire)

References

• Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986), “ك ب ر ت”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎^[2], Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 732

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic كِبْرِيت (kibrīt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kab.riːt/, /kib.riːt/

Noun

كَبْريت or كِبْريت • (kabrīt or kabrīt) m (plural كباريت (kabārīt))

1. sulfur
2. match (device to make fire)
3. matchbox

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic كِبْرِيت (kibrīt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kib.riːt/, [kɪbˈriːt]

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Noun

كبريت • (kibrīt) m

1. sulfur
2. (uncountable) matches (device to make fire)

   Synonym: (Galilee) شحاطة (šuḥḥāṭa)

   علبة كبريت ― ʕulbet kibrīt ― matchbox

   كبريتة / عودة كبريت ― kibrīte / ʕūdet kibrīt ― a match