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زِنْجَفْر or زُنْجُفْر (zinjafr or zunjufrm

  1. cinnabar
  2. vermilion

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  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زنجفر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 257
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “زنجفر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1257
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “زنجفر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 531

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From Arabic زِنْجَفْر (zinjafr).

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زنجفر (zencefr)

  1. cinnabar
  2. vermilion

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