Where does “سیماب” come from?
سیماب (Persian) comes from Persian سیم, from Persian سی, from English cee, from Middle English cee, from Old French sei, from Latin sēdēs, from Latin sedeō, from Proto-Italic sedēō — to sit.
سیماب (Persian): quicksilver, mercury type of metal
Definitions
- quicksilver, mercury type of metal
Ancestry of “سیماب”, step by step
سیماب traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Persian سیم
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Persian | سیم | wire; silver; thirtieth |
| 2 | Persian | سی | thirty; for; in order to |
| 3 | English | cee | The name of the Latin-script letter C; Something... |
| 4 | Middle English | cee | Alternative form of see |
| 5 | Old French | sei | — |
| 6 | Latin | sēdēs | seat, chair |
| 7 | Latin | sedeō | to sit, to be seated |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | sedēō | sit, be sitting, be seated |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sḗd- | to sit |
via Persian آب
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Persian | آب | water; liquid; juice |
| 2 | Arabic | آب | to return, to come back; to repent; to incur,... |
| 3 | Classical Syriac | ܐܒ | August |
| 4 | Aramaic | אב | absolute form of אַבָּא |
| 5 | Akkadian | Abum | Abu, the fifth month of the Babylonian calendar (approximately July-August) |
| 6 | Proto-Semitic | ʔabw- | father |
| 7 | Proto-Afroasiatic | ʔab- | father |