رصاص

Signification (Anglais)

1. (collective) lead
2. (collective, obsolete) tin
3. (collective) bullets, shots, dots
4. (collective, obsolete) stones heaped together to surround a grave or well

Concepts

plomb

projectile

Pb

Saturne

Synonymes

Pb

رصاصة

الرّقم الذّرِّي 82

Traductions

lead

Blei

chumbo

piombo

plom

plomo

plumbum

lood

μόλυβδος

kurşun

plomb

sirb

sirîç

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ra.sˤaːsˤ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

According to Arabic lexicographic tradition, derived from رَصَّ (raṣṣa, “to stick firmly, to join compactly, to make even or level, to file, to pile, to close”), “due to the interjoining of its parts”, but the metal meaning has been identified by Scher with Persian ارزیز (arzīz, “tin”), which for formal reasons and chronology would have to be specified as a semantic loan from Parthian *arčīč, cognate to Middle Armenian արճիճ (arčič, “lead”), though Fraenkel contended that “to stick firmly” could have led to the metal meaning via the meaning “to solder”.