كيمياء

Arabic

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *-mə

Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)

Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.

Arabic كيمياء

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā), from χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) + -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiː.mi.jaːʔ/

Noun

كِيمِيَاء • (kīmiyāʔ) f

1. chemistry

Declension

Declension of noun كِيمِيَاء (kīmiyāʔ)

singular	basic singular diptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	كِيمِيَاء kīmiyāʔ	الْكِيمِيَاء al-kīmiyāʔ	كِيمِيَاء kīmiyāʔ
nominative	كِيمِيَاءُ kīmiyāʔu	الْكِيمِيَاءُ al-kīmiyāʔu	كِيمِيَاءُ kīmiyāʔu
accusative	كِيمِيَاءَ kīmiyāʔa	الْكِيمِيَاءَ al-kīmiyāʔa	كِيمِيَاءَ kīmiyāʔa
genitive	كِيمِيَاءَ kīmiyāʔa	الْكِيمِيَاءِ al-kīmiyāʔi	كِيمِيَاءِ kīmiyāʔi

Derived terms

• كِيمِيَاء زِرَاعِيّة (kīmiyāʔ zirāʕiyya)

Related terms

• خِيمِيَاء (ḵīmiyāʔ)
• كِيمِيَائِيّ (kīmiyāʔiyy)
• كِيمِيَاوِيّ (kīmiyāwiyy)
• كِيمَائِيّ (kīmāʔiyy)
• كِيمَاوِيّ (kīmāwiyy)

Descendants

• Hijazi Arabic: كيميا (kīmya)
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܝܼܡܝܼܵܐ (kīmīyā)
• → Georgian: ქიმია (kimia)
• → Middle Armenian: ալքիմիա (alkʻimia)
  • Armenian: ալքիմիա (alkʻimia)
• → Bengali: কিমিয়া (kimiẏa), কীমিয়া (kimiẏa), কীমীয়া (kimiẏa)
• → Javanese: ꦏꦶꦩꦶꦲ (kimiha)
  • → Banyumasan: ꦏꦶꦩꦶꦲ
• → Latin: alchēmia, alkimia, alckimia (Medieval Latin), alchimia, alchymia
  • → Bulgarian: алхимия (alhimija)
  • → Catalan: alquímia
  • → Esperanto: alkemio
  • → Italian: alchimia
  • → Middle High German: alchemie
    • German: Alchemie
  • → Old French: alkimie (see there for further descendants)
  • → Spanish: alquimia
• → Latin: chēmia, chimia, chymia
  • → French: chimie (learned)
    • Haitian Creole: chimi
    • Mauritian Creole: simi
    • → Iranian Persian: شیمی (šīmī)
  • → German: Chemie
  • → Greek: χημεία (chimeía)
  • → Polish: chemia
  • → Romanian: chimie (learned)
  • → Russian: хи́мия (xímija)
• → Malay: kimia
  • Indonesian: kimia
• → Russian: алхи́мия (alxímija), алхи́мія (alxímija) — pre-1918 spelling
  • → Georgian: ალქიმია (alkimia)
  • → Kazakh: алхимия (alxıymıya)
• → Swahili: kimya
• → Ottoman Turkish: كیمیا
  • Turkish: kimya
• → Classical Persian: کِیمِیَا (kīmiyā)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: कीमिया (kīmiyā)

    Urdu: کِیمیا (kīmyā)

  • → Turkmen: kimýa