英语词汇alcohol的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

alcohol. One apocryphal tale claims that an Arab named Jabir ibn Hazzan “invented” alcohol in about a.d. 800 when he discovered the process of distilling wine. In trying to find the intoxicating agent in wine he distilled alkuhl, which meant “a finely refined spirit.” According to the story, the word itself was adopted from the name for an antimony powder used at the time as an eyelid cosmetic (an ancient eye shadow). More sober etymologists will only say that alcohol derives from the Arabic alkuhl, powdered antimony, or the distillate.

词汇	alcohol
词源	alcohol. One apocryphal tale claims that an Arab named Jabir ibn Hazzan “invented” alcohol in about a.d. 800 when he discovered the process of distilling wine. In trying to find the intoxicating agent in wine he distilled alkuhl, which meant “a finely refined spirit.” According to the story, the word itself was adopted from the name for an antimony powder used at the time as an eyelid cosmetic (an ancient eye shadow). More sober etymologists will only say that alcohol derives from the Arabic alkuhl, powdered antimony, or the distillate.
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