borax

تنكارtinkār

n. tnkār – borax (min.)

  1. Albuzale Simp. §6.8: Et ista sunt valde mundificativa quando miscentur cum aceto morphee et lepre. Et hoc idem facit allium silvestre, scilicet scordeon, et sal petroleon et borax et sal armoniacum

  2. Albuzale Simp. §11.141: Borax est calidum et siccum in quarto. Valet proprietate sua corrosionibus dencium et caninorum dencium

    Laba.: التنكار حارّ يابس في الرابعة ينفع بخاصّيّة فيه من تأكّل الأسنان والأضراس

  1. 2 Albuzale Simp.
[ Probably < Malayan tingkal. Goltz 1972, 281–282. ]

< Arabic bawraq ‘natron’ < Persian būrah.

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