tincal
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Arabic تِنْكَار (tinkār), from Persian تنکار (tankâr), from Sanskrit टांकण (ṭāṃkaṇa). Compare altincar and tincar.
Noun
edittincal (uncountable)
- (chemistry, dated) crude native borax, formerly imported from Tibet, and once the chief source of boric compounds
See also
editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tincal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Further reading
edit- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Tincal”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “tincal”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
Anagrams
editFrench
editNoun
edittincal m (plural tincaux)
Further reading
edit- “tincal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.