Editing Borax (section)

== Etymology ==
The English word ''borax'' is Latinized: the [[Middle English]] form was {{Lang|enm|boras}}, from [[Old French]] {{Lang|fro|boras, bourras}}.<ref name="OED.borax">{{Cite OED|borax|16485735}}</ref> That may have been from [[Medieval Latin]] {{lang|la|baurach}} (another English spelling), {{lang|la|borac(-/um/em), borax}}, along with [[Spanish language|Spanish]] {{lang|es|borrax}} (> {{lang|es|borraj}}) and [[Italian language|Italian]] {{Lang|it|borrace}}, in the 9th century, and from [[Arabic]] ({{lang|ar|بورق}}){{Transliteration|ar|bawraq, būraq, bōraq}}, as mentioned for example in ''Kitab al-Tabikh'' of [[Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq]].<ref name="OED.borax"/><ref>{{cite dictionary|last=Wehr |first=Hans |authorlink=Hans Wehr |editor-first=J. Milton |editor-last=Cowan |dictionary=A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic |title={{lang|ar|بورق|cat=no}} |url=https://ejtaal.net/aa/#hw4=113,ll=312,ls=5,la=386,sg=169,ha=68,br=145,pr=28,vi=86,mgf=124,mr=93,mn=119,aan=86,kz=188,uqq=39,ulq=419,uqa=62,uqw=189,umr=148,ums=108,umj=86,bdw=129,amr=84,asb=81,auh=239,dhq=69,mht=65,msb=33,tla=33,amj=75,ens=89,mis=1801
|location=Ithaca, NY |publisher=Spoken Language Services |year=1979 |page=100 |edition=4th |isbn=0-87950-003-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq |first1=al-Muẓaffar ibn Naṣr |editor1-last=Nasrallah |editor1-first=Nawal |editor1-link=Nawal  Nasrallah |title=Annals of the caliphs' kitchens: Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq's tenth-century Baghdadi cookbook |date=2007 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-15867-2 |page=1}}</ref>

The words ''tincal'' and ''tincar'' were adopted into [[English language|English]] in the 17th century from [[Malay language|Malay]] {{Lang|ms|tingkal}} and from [[Urdu language|Urdu]]/[[Persian language|Persian]]/[[Arabic language|Arabic]] {{script|Arab|تنکار}} {{Transliteration|ur|tinkār/tankār}}; thus the two forms in English. These all appear to be related to the [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]] {{Lang|sa|टांकण}} {{Transliteration|sa|ṭānkaṇa}}.<ref name=OED.tinkal/><ref name=ChemIn1976/>