Zırnık: I arsenic EN[1]. (Fars. zernіḫ’ten)
1. Arsenik, halk ağzı. sıçan otu.
2. (Olumsuz cümlelerde) Bir şeyin çok ufak, çok önemsiz
parçası: Üç yüz lirayı geri almak istediler. Zırnık alamadılar (Hüseyin R.
Gürpınar’dan). Piyasada demir fiyatı düşeli demirin zırnığı kalmadı (Burhan
Felek).
Zırnık (bile) vermemek (koklatmamak): En küçük bir şey bile vermemek: Ama bir huyu vardı: İsteyene zırnık bile koklatmazdı, istemeyeceksin vesselâm (Fahri Celâl). Geçen kış da aç kalmış, kapıma gelmiştin. Bu kış? Allah göstermesin, zırnık vermeyeceğim (Burhan Felek). Vallahi bu bizim hayâtımızda helâlinden kazandığımız ilk para, bundan sana bir zırnık koklatmayız (Ergun Göze).
Zırnık sarısı: Turuncuya çalar sarı renk.
[1] Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and atomic number 33. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in combination with sulfur and metals, but also as a pure elemental crystal. Arsenic is a metalloid. It has various allotropes, but only the gray form, which has a metallic appearance, is important to industry.
The word arsenic has its origin in the Syriac word ܙܪܢܝܟܐ zarnika, [better source needed] from Arabic al-zarnīḵ الزرنيخ 'the orpiment', based on Persian zar 'gold' from the word زرنيخ zarnikh, meaning "yellow" (literally "gold-colored") and hence "(yellow) orpiment". It was adopted into Greek as arsenikon (ἀρσενικόν), a form that is folk etymology, being the neuter form of the Greek word arsenikos (ἀρσενικός), meaning "male", "virile". from Middle Persian zarnik "gold-colored" (arsenic trisulphide has a lemon-yellow color), from Old Iranian *zarna- "golden" (from PIE root ghel-[2] "to shine," with derivatives referring to bright materials and gold).
The Greek word was adopted in Latin as arsenicum, which in French became arsenic, from which the English word arsenic is taken. Arsenic sulfides (orpiment, realgar) and oxides have been known and used since ancient times.
arsenic (n.) late 14c., "yellow arsenic, arsenic trisulphide," from Old French arsenic, from Latin arsenicum, from late Greek arsenikon "arsenic" (Dioscorides; Aristotle has it as sandarakē),
The form of the Greek word is folk etymology, literally "masculine," from arsen "male, strong, virile" (compare arseno-koites "lying with men" in New Testament) supposedly in reference to the powerful properties of the substance. As an element, from 1812. The mineral (as opposed to the element) is properly orpiment, from Latin auri pigmentum, so called because it was used to make golden dyes. Related: Arsenical.
... se lo pueden comer las hormigas o le puede caer en la cabeza una gran langosta de arsenico ... [Lorca, on the poet overmastered by intellect]
As the symptoms of arsenic poisoning are not very specific,
it was frequently used for murder until the advent of the Marsh test, a
sensitive chemical test for its presence. (Another less sensitive but more
general test is the Reinsch test.) Owing to its use by the ruling class to
murder one another and its potency and discreetness, arsenic has been called
the "poison of kings" and the "king of poisons". In the
Renaissance era, arsenic was known as "inheritance powder" due to use
in killing family members.
[2] ghel: Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to shine;" it forms words for "gold" (the "bright" metal), words denoting colors, especially "yellow" and "green," also "bile, gall," for its color, and a large group of Germanic gl- words having to do with shining and glittering and, perhaps, sliding. Buck says the interchange of words for yellow and green is "perhaps because they were applied to vegetation like grass, cereals, etc., which changed from green to yellow."
It forms all or part of: arsenic; Chloe; chloral; chloride;
chlorinate; chlorine; chloro-; chloroform; chlorophyll; chloroplast; cholecyst;
choler; cholera; choleric; cholesterol; cholinergic; Cloris; gall (n.1)
"bile, liver secretion;" gild; glad; glance; glare; glass; glaze;
glazier; gleam; glee; glib; glide; glimmer; glimpse; glint; glissade; glisten;
glister; glitch; glitter; glitzy; gloaming; gloat; gloss (n.1) "glistening
smoothness, luster;" glow; glower; gold; guilder; jaundice; melancholic;
melancholy; yellow; zloty.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit harih "yellow, tawny yellow," hiranyam "gold;" Avestan zari "yellow;" Old Persian daraniya-, Avestan zaranya- "gold;" Greek khlōros "greenish-yellow color," kholos "bile, gall, wrath;" Latin helvus "yellowish, bay," Gallo-Latin gilvus "light bay;" Lithuanian geltonas "yellow;" Old Church Slavonic zlutu, Polish żółty, Russian zeltyj "yellow;" Latin galbus "greenish-yellow," fellis "bile, gall;" Lithuanian žalias "green,"želvas "greenish," tulžis "bile;" Old Church Slavonic zelenu, Polish zielony, Russian zelenyj "green;" Old Irish glass, Welsh and Breton glas "green," also "gray, blue;" Old English galla "gall, bile," geolu, geolwe, German gelb, Old Norse gulr "yellow;" Old Church Slavonic zlato, Russian zoloto, Old English gold, Gothic gulþ "gold;" Old English glæs "glass; a glass vessel."
rat-poison (n.) "something used to poison rats with," especially arsenic, 1799, from rat (n.) + poison (n.).
ratsbane (n.) "rat poison, arsenic," 1520s; see rat (n.) + bane. Compare henbane, fleabane, wolfsbane.
orpiment (n.) "arsenic trisulphide," a bright yellow mineral substance used in dyeing as a pigment and also medicinally and for destroying lice, late 13c., orpyment, from Old French orpiment "arsenic trisulphide, yellow color," from Latin auripigmentum, from aurum "gold" (see aureate) + pigmentum "coloring matter, pigment, paint," from stem of pingere "to color, paint," from a nasalized form of PIE root *peig- "to cut, mark by incision."