tincal

• altincar (obsolete)
• tangar, tankal, tincall, tincar, tinkal (obsolete)

From Arabic تِنْكَار (tinkār), from Persian تنکار (tankâr), from Sanskrit टांकण (ṭāṃkaṇa). Compare altincar and tincar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪŋkl̩/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkəl

tincal (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, dated) crude native borax, formerly imported from Tibet, and once the chief source of boric compounds

• borax

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025), “Tincal”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “tincal”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.
• “tincal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• cantil, Catlin, CanLit, lactin, catlin, Anctil

tincal m (plural tincaux)

1. tincal

• “tincal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.