alizarin

• alizarine

Borrowed from French alizarine, corresponding to alizari +‎ -in.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈlɪzəɹɪn/

alizarin (countable and uncountable, plural alizarins)

1. (organic chemistry) A red substance, 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone, extracted from madder root and used as a dye.
   • 1946, Elizabeth Bishop, “Roosters”, in North and South:

     glass headed pins,
     oil-golds and copper greens,
     anthracite blues, alizarins,

   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 82:

     In 1883, the German output of alizarin, the brilliant red chemical that imitated natural carmine, reached twelve thousand tons, dwarfing the amount being produced by Perkin's factory in London.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آلیزارین, from French alizarine.

• IPA^(key): /a.li.za.ˈɾin/
• Hyphenation: a‧li‧za‧rin

alizarin (definite accusative alizarini, plural alizarinler)

1. (organic chemistry) alizarin

   Synonyms: kök boyası, kök kırmızısı

• “alizarin”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “alizarin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “alizarin”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı