رصاص

Meaning

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

lead

Pb

bullets

graphite

bullet

missile

atomic number 82

Synonyms

Pb

رصاصة

الرّقم الذّرِّي 82

Translations

plomb

piombo

Blei

chumbo

plom

plomo

plumbum

μόλυβδος

lood

kurşun

plomb

sirb

sirîç

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ra.sˤaːsˤ/

Etymology

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”.