▪ Engl
zircon,
1794,
circon, also
jargon, new name given in chemistry to
jacinth, from Fr
zircone and Ge
Zirkon, from Ar
zarqūn ‘cinnabar, bright red’, from Pers
zargun ‘gold-colored’, from Av
zari- ‘gold-colored’, from
zar ‘gold’. –
zirconium, metallic chemical element,
1808, coined in modLat by German chemist and mineralogist M. H. Klaproth (1743-1817) in
1789; so called because it was found in
zircon –
EtymOnline ▪ Lokotsch1927#141: Ar
zarkūn [sic!] > Span
azarcón ‘red lead’, Port
zarcão,
azarcão.
▪ Rolland2014a: Perhaps this is the etymon also of It
giargone ‘variety of diamant’, whence Fr
jargon. Cf., however, CNRTL #jargon²: »
1723 jargons ‘petits cristaux vendus par les droguistes pour de vrais hyacinthes’;
1752 ‘sorte de diamant jaune’, empr. à l’It
giargone ‘variété de diamant’ attesté dep.
C14 (d’apr.
DEI), de même orig. que oFr
jacunce,
jargunce ‘pierre précieuse’, cf.
jacinthe et
hyacinthe.« If Fr
jargon is not from Ar
zarqūn but from Lat
hyacinthus ‘plante à bulbe, glaïeul; sorte d’améthyste’, Grk
hyákinthos, from Syr
yaquntā, in itself a loan from Grk
hyákinthos, then one will rather have to compare Ar ↗
yāqūt.
▪ Tu
zirkon,
1892 (Tıngır & Sinapian,
Iṣṭılāḥāt Luġāti), from Fr
zircon ‘red gem’, from Ge
Zirkon (1789 Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Ge chemist), from Ar
zarqūn ‘
1 brilliant red,
2 red gem’ – Nişanyan (22Dec2014, #
zirkon).