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▪ The term salaqūn ~ salāqūn for ‘red lead, minium’ is prob. akin to ↗zarqūn ‘bright red’.
▪ Cf., however, Nişanyan (1Jul2017) who suggests an interpretation as *‘the Syrian (mineral), the (red) substance from Syria’, from Grk συρικόν syrikón ‘Syrian’.
▪ Etymological kinship with other items from the same root, whose broad semantic value spectrum, accord. to BAH2008, spans from the main values ‘to throw on the back’ over ‘to flay with a whip’, ‘to insult’, ‘to scald’, ‘to lacerate the skin’ and ‘boiling, cooking lightly by boiling’ to ‘intrinsic nature’, can prob. be excluded.
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▪ Ar salaqūn ‘red lead, minium’, also saliqūn , sariqūn , EgAr salaq͗ōn, zalaq͗ōn: prob. akin to Ar zarqūn ‘bright red’ (? < Pers zargūn ‘gold-coloured’ or Grk συρικόν syrikón, i.e., *‘Syrian’ mineral, red substance *‘from Syria’).
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▪ Ar salaqūn is found also as saliqūn or sariqūn and in EgAr also as salaq͗ōn and zalaq͗ōn. Given the variability of R₁ (s/z) and R₂ (l/r), a relation to Ar ↗zarqūn ‘bright red’ does not seem unlikely. BadawiHinds1986 thinks the EgAr words may be from Tu sülüğen/süleğen ‘do.’, but the reverse is prob. the case, i.e., the Tu words are from Ar (or both from Pers zargūn ‘gold-coloured’). In contrast, Nişanyan_1Jul2017 (s.v. Tu süleğen) would not exclude an origin in Grk συρικόν syrikón, which would suggest an interpretation of minium as ‘the Syrian (mineral), the (red) substance from Syria’, an idea that could be corroborated by the Ru Ukr name for minium, súrik. But Nişanyan adds himself that such an etymology is rather uncertain. (The mineral is first mentioned in Tu sources in the anon. Câmiʕü'l-Fürs, 1501, as sülegen.)
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▪ Prob. not from Ar salaqūn (or ↗zarqūn ), but perh. from the same (Grk? Pers?) source may be Ru Ukr súrik ‘red lead, minium’.
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For other values of the root, cf. ↗¹salaqa, ↗²salaqa, ↗³salaqa, ↗⁴salaqa, ↗⁵salaqa, ↗tasallaqa, ↗sullāq, ↗salq, ↗¹salīqaẗ, ↗²salīqaẗ, and ↗salūqī as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√SLQ.

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