mineral (any naturally occurring inorganic material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties)
çekim: çoğul minerały · tamlayan minerału
köken: Etymology tree Late Latin mina Old French mine Middle French -iere, -ier Middle French minierebor.? Medieval Latin minera Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Medieval Latin -ālis Medieval Latin minerālislbor. French minéralbor. Polish minerał Borrowed from French minéral.
köken: Borrowed from Sanskrit खनिज (khanija, “gold or silver dug from mines”), which is analyzable as खनि (khani, “mine, quarry”) + -ज (-ja, “born from”).
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 鑛產, composed of 鑛 (“mineral”) and 產 (“product, produce, resource”).
Etimoloji
Borrowed from Dutch mineraal (“mineral”), from Old French mineral, (French minéral), from Medieval Latin minerale, from minera (“ore”), probably ultimately derived from Latin mina (“ore, mine”).