realgar

See also: Realgar and réalgar

English

Realgar

Alternative forms

• rosaker
• resalgar, resegall, resegallum (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English realgar, from Medieval Latin realgar, resalgar, from Arabic رَهْج اَلْغَار‎ (rahj al-ḡār, literally “cave dust”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹiˈæl.ɡɑː/, /ɹiˈæl.ɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹiˈæl.ɡɑɹ/, /ɹiˈæl.ɡɚ/

Noun

realgar (usually uncountable, plural realgars)

1. (mineralogy) A mineral, arsenic sulfide (AsS), often associated with orpiment and stibnite in lead, silver and gold ores.

Derived terms

• pararealgar

Translations

mineral

• Arabic: رَهَج اَلْغَار‎ m (rahaj al-ḡār)
• Armenian: ռեալգար (hy) (ṙealgar)

  Middle Armenian: ջնարակ (ǰnarak)

• Bengali: মনঃশিলা (mônôḥśila), মনছাল (mônchal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雄黃 (zh), 雄黄 (zh) (xiónghuáng)

• Finnish: realgaari
• Galician: rosalgar m
• German: Realgar n, Rubinschwefel m, rotes Schwefelarsenik n, rote Arsenblende f, Rauschrot n
• Greek:

  Ancient: σανδαράκη f (sandarákē)

• Gujarati: મનશિલ (manśil)
• Hindi: मैनसिल (hi) (mainsil)

• Italian: realgar m
• Japanese: 鶏冠石 (けいかんせき, keikanseki)
• Latin: risigallum n, rissigallum n
• Manchu: ᠠᠮᡳᡥᡡᠨ (amihūn)
• Oriya: ମନଛାଲ (or) (mônôchalô)
• Russian: реальга́р (ru) m (realʹgár)
• Sanskrit: मनःशिला (sa) (manaḥśilā)
• Spanish: rejalgar m
• Swedish: realgar
• Tagalog: batikos
• Tamil: மனோசிலை (ta) (maṉōcilai)

See also

• orpiment
• cinnabar

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2022), “Realgar”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “realgar”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2022.

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Latin

Etymology

From Arabic رَهْج اَلْغَار‎ (rahj al-ḡār, literally “cave dust”).

Noun

realgar n (genitive realgāris); third declension

1. realgar (arsenic disulfide)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	realgar	realgāria
Genitive	realgāris	realgārium
Dative	realgārī	realgāribus
Accusative	realgar	realgāria
Ablative	realgārī	realgāribus
Vocative	realgar	realgāria

References

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne (eds.) (1975–2013), “realgar”, in Dictionary of medieval Latin from British sources‎^[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, OCLC 1369101

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Romanian

Etymology

From French réalgar.

Noun

realgar n (uncountable)

1. realgar

Declension

declension of realgar (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) realgar	realgarul
genitive/dative	(unui) realgar	realgarului
vocative	realgarule