Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

colcothar

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: col-cothar
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Polishing rouge; a reddish-brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Etymology

From Arabic قَلْقَطَار (qalqaṭār).

Origin

Source language: Arabic

Word Breakdown

Root: قَلْقَطَار

Usage

Inflected Forms

colcothars (plural)

Phrases

salt of colcothar

Synonyms

crocus Martis

Questions

What does colcothar mean?: Polishing rouge; a reddish-brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment.
Where does colcothar come from?: It is traced to Arabic.

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