خزف

Meaning

earthenware, ceramic, pottery

Concepts

ceramics

porcelain

ceramic

china

chinaware

pottery

Translations

céramique

cerámica

Keramik

porcelaine

Porzellan

porcellana

πορσελάνη

cerâmica

ceramiche

porcelana

porselein

porcellana

porcelana

Pronounced as (IPA)

/xa.zaf/

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܚܶܙܦܳܐ (ḵezəpā), ܚܶܨܦܳܐ (ḵeṣəpā, “piece of pottery”), related to ܚܰܙܽܘܦܳܐ (ḵazūpa, “rough”), which is a phono-semantic matching of Hittite 𒂁 (ḫarši-, “pottery vessel”). The Aramaic root is related to حَصَفَ (ḥaṣafa, “to twist a rope strongly”).