نحاس

Etymology

 * attested at least from the Amarna period in ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and :
 * From, such a sense derived from hissing equated to whispers. The process of extracting ore and the ability to shape metal was considered connected to arcane arts in most early societies; alternatively from the use of copper, bronze, and brass bowls in commonly practiced hydromancy or in offering libations to spirits.
 * From, connected with misfortune and difficulty, including great association with smoke, fire, and intense heat or burning; by extension the conditions of metallurgy. See also brass founders' ague, the brass shakes especially associated with this metal.
 * Possibly from a semantic shift of, from , as most ancient languages conflate the terms for copper and bronze, bronze being an alloy of tin and copper. In this case a.
 * Possibly related to 🇨🇬, likely borrowed from 🇨🇬; less likely related to 🇨🇬, ultimately from a loan.

Noun

 * 1)  copper
 * 2) alloys of copper; bronze, brass
 * 1) alloys of copper; bronze, brass

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  copper