Arabic

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Etymology

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From رَصَّ (raṣṣa, to stick firmly, to join compactly, to make even or level, to file, to pile, to close). Apparently extended its meaning in a semantic loan from Parthian *arčīč cognate to Middle Armenian արճիճ (arčič, lead).

Root
ر ص ص (r ṣ ṣ)
5 terms

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ra.sˤaːsˤ/
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Noun

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رَصَاص (raṣāṣm (collective, singulative رَصَاصَة f (raṣāṣa))

  1. lead
    Synonyms: رَصَاص أَسْوَد (raṣāṣ ʔaswad), أُسْرُب (ʔusrub), آنُك (ʔānuk), أَبَار (ʔabār)
  2. (obsolete) tin
    Synonyms: رَصَاص أَبْيَض (raṣāṣ ʔabyaḍ), رَصَاص قَلَعِيّ (raṣāṣ qalaʕiyy), قَصْدِير (qaṣdīr)
  3. bullets, shots, dots
    Synonyms: گُلَل (gulal), بُنْدُق (bunduq)
  4. (obsolete) stones heaped together to surround a grave or well
    Alternative form: رَصْرَاص (raṣrāṣ)

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References

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  • Asbaghi, Asya (1988) Persische Lehnwörter im Arabischen[2] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 136
  • Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 121–122 Nr. 1083
  • Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎[3], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 209b
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 537
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 152
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “رصاص”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[4] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 154a
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “رصاص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[5], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1092
  • Siddiqi, Abdussattar (1919) Studien über die Persischen Fremdwörter im klassischen Arabisch (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 38–39
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “رصاص”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[6], London: W.H. Allen, page 416
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “رصاص”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 396

South Levantine Arabic

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Root
ر ص ص
2 terms

Etymology

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From Arabic رَصَاص (raṣāṣ).

Noun

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رصاص (rṣāṣm (collective, singulative رصاصة f (rṣāṣe), paucal رصاصات (rṣāṣāt))

  1. (uncountable) lead
  2. (uncountable) bullets