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shaba

Chemical element (edit)
CuAtomic number 29shaba
Alternative names: kupri
Classification data Period 4 Group 11 Block d-block Class transition metal
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Borrowed from Arabic شَبَه (šabah, “brass”).[1]

shaba class IX (plural **shaba class X)

  1. copper (chemical element)
    Synonym: kupri

  2. brass

  3. ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020), Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 162 Nr. 1431a

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