alizarin

See also: Alizarin

English

Alternative forms

• alizarine

Etymology

Borrowed from French alizarine, corresponding to alizari +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈlɪzəɹɪn/

Noun

alizarin (countable and uncountable, plural alizarins)

1. (organic chemistry) A red substance, 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone, extracted from madder root and used as a dye.
   • 1946, Elizabeth Bishop, “Roosters”, in North and South:

     glass headed pins,
     oil-golds and copper greens,
     anthracite blues, alizarins,

   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 82:

     In 1883, the German output of alizarin, the brilliant red chemical that imitated natural carmine, reached twelve thousand tons, dwarfing the amount being produced by Perkin's factory in London.

Derived terms

• alizaric
• alizarin crimson
• alizarin red
• diacetylalizarin
• naphthazarin
• nitroalizarin
• quinizarin

Translations

1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 茜素 (zh) (qiànsù)

• French: alizarine (fr) f
• German: Alizarin (de) n
• Irish: alasairin f, alasairín m
• Italian: alizarina f
• Polish: alizaryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: alizarina (pt) f, garança f

Turkish

Etymology

Etymology tree

French alizari

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

French -in

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -am

Old French -e

French -e

French -ine

French alizarine

Ottoman Turkish آلیزارین

Turkish alizarin

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آلیزارین, from French alizarine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.li.za.ˈɾin/
• Hyphenation: a‧li‧za‧rin

Noun

alizarin (definite accusative alizarini, plural alizarinler)

1. (organic chemistry) alizarin

   Synonyms: kök boyası, kök kırmızısı

Further reading

• “alizarin”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “alizarin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “alizarin”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı