An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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absorb
  درشمیدن  
daršamidan
Fr.: absorber  

  1. General: To suck up or take up.

  2. Physics: To retain → energy (radiation or sound, for example) or → matter wholly, without → reflection or → transmission.

Etymology (EN): M.Fr. absorber, from L. absorbere “to swallow up,” from ab- “from” + sorbere “suck in;” PIE root *srebh- “to suck, absorb;” cf. Arm. arbi “I drank;” Gk. rhophein “to sup up, gulp down;” Lith. srebiu “to drink greedily;” Proto-Iranian *hrab- “to sip, suck (in),” cf. Pashto raw-, Shaghni râv-, Sariqoli rov-, Ishkashimi ruv- “to suck” (Cheung 2007), Pers. (prefixed) zâlu “leech.”

Etymology (PE): Daršamidan, from daršam, from dar- “in, into”

  • šam, variant of šâm, as in âšâm, âšâmidan “to drink, to sip;” Av. šam- “to drink, sip, swallow;” Skt. cam, camati “to sip, drink, lick up, absorb.”