kahrabāʔ كَهْرَباء , var. kahrubāʔ, kahrabā, kahrubā
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√KHRB
1 ↗kahrabā; 2 electricity – WehrCowan1976.
▪ [v1] ↗kahrabā
▪ [v2] In the same way as Engl electricity goes back to the Grk word for ‘amber’, ḗlektron, the modPers and Ar words are based on the old Pers words for the same material, due to its electromagnetic features, see ↗[v1] kahrabā. According to Braune1933, 1
the first Ar attestation in this sense is from the 1830s, coined by R.R. al-Ṭahṭāwī.
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▪ [v1] WKAS
▪ [v2] 1834 (electricity) al-Ṭahṭāwī, Taḫlīṣ al-ʔibrīz (Braune 19331
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►al-kahrabāʔ (Eg.), n.def., the streetcar, the trolley. ►kahraba, vb., 1a to electrify, electrize; b to ionize: vb. I, denom., a C19 coining.
►takahraba, vb. II, 1a to be electrified, be electrized, become electric; b to be charged with electricity; c to be ionized: t-stem of kahraba, pass./med. ►kahrabaẗ, n.f., 1a electrization, electrification; b electricity: vn. of kahraba.
►kahrab, pl. kahāribᵘ, n., electron: prob. a C19 neologism, based on the vb. kahraba.
►kuhayrib, pl. -āt, n., electron: dimin. of kahrab, most prob. a C19 neologism.
►kuhayribī, adj., electronic, electron‑ (in compounds): nisba-formation from kuhayrib | al-miǧhar al-kahrabāʔī, n., electron microscope
►kahāribī, adj., electronic, electron- (in compounds): nisba-formation, from kahāribᵘ, pl. of kahrab.
►kahrabāʔī and kahrabī, 1a adj., electric(al); b n., electrician: nisba-formation, from kahrabāʔ and kahrab, respectively | tayyār kahrabāʔī, n., electric current; ǧāmiʕaẗ kahrabāʔiyyaẗ, n.f., storage battery, secondary battery, accumulator; miṣbāḥ kahrabāʔī, n., electric lamp, lightbulb; ʕilāǧ kahrabāʔī, n., diathermy; ʕālim kahrabāʔī, n., electrophysicist; maġnaṭīs kahrabāʔī, n., electromagnet; maġnaṭīsiyyaẗ kahrabāʔiyyaẗ, n.f., electromagnetism; nūr kahrabāʔī, n., electric light
►kahrabāʔiyyaẗ and kahrabiyyaẗ, n.f., electricity: abstr. formation in ‑iyyaẗ.
►mukahrab, adj., electrically charged, electrized, electrified; electrically conductive, conducting, ionised; electrically ignited, provided with electric ignition: PP I. For other values, cf. ↗kahrabā and, for the general picture, ↗√KHRB. – See also the a porte-manteau formation ↗kahraṭīsī.
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