توتياء

Arabic

Alternative forms

• تُوتِيَا (tūtiyā), تُوتِيَة (tūtiya)

Etymology

From Persian توتیا (tutiyâ, “zinc oxide”), from Sanskrit तुत्था (tuttha), although this last actually means “copper sulphate“. Alternatively it is from a variant of دود (dud, “smoke”), in the pattern of مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ) and بَامِيَا (bāmiyā) and like دُخَان (duḵān, “smoke”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuː.ti.jaːʔ/

Noun

تُوتِيَاء • (tūtiyāʔ) f or m

1. zinc, zinc oxide, tutty

   Synonyms: خَارَصِين (ḵāraṣīn), زِنْك (zink)

   […] اَلْحَدِيدُ فِيهَا إِضَافَةً إِلَى بَعْضِ ٱلْعَنَاصِرِ ٱلثَّانَوِيَّةِ ٱلْأُخْرَى كَٱلنُّحَاسِ وَٱلرَّصَاصِ وَٱلتُوتِيَاءِ

   […] al-ḥadīdu fīhā ʔiḍāfatan ʔilā baʕḍi l-ʕanāṣiri ṯ-ṯānawiyyati l-ʔuḵrā kan-nuḥāsi war-raṣāṣi wat-tūtiyāʔi

   […] iron where in addition to some other minor elements such as copper, lead and zinc...

Declension

Declension of noun تُوتِيَاء (tūtiyāʔ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تُوتِيَاء tūtiyāʔ	التُّوتِيَاء at-tūtiyāʔ	تُوتِيَاء tūtiyāʔ
Nominative	تُوتِيَاءٌ tūtiyāʔun	التُّوتِيَاءُ at-tūtiyāʔu	تُوتِيَاءُ tūtiyāʔu
Accusative	تُوتِيَاءً tūtiyāʔan	التُّوتِيَاءَ at-tūtiyāʔa	تُوتِيَاءَ tūtiyāʔa
Genitive	تُوتِيَاءٍ tūtiyāʔin	التُّوتِيَاءِ at-tūtiyāʔi	تُوتِيَاءِ tūtiyāʔi

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: թութիայ (tʻutʻiay)
• → Spanish: atutía
• → Spanish: tutía

References

• Käs, Fabian (2010) Die Mineralien in der arabischen Pharmakognosie. Eine Konkordanz zur mineralischen Materia medica der klassischen arabischen Heilmittelkunde nebst überlieferungsgeschichtlichen Studien (Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur · Mainz · Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 54) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 361–369, particularly 365 for the etymology