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[Arpa]

PETROLEUM

 

Rock/Stone Oil.

 

As you can see the word consists of “petro/stone” and “oleum/oil”-petro-oil..

In Armenian it is “kariugh/stone oil”

 

1. From Latin petra (“stone, rock”), from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”)***.

 

*** See why that ancient monument in modern Jordan was named Petra;

 

http://www.bamjam.net/Jordan/Petra.html

 

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The Persian word for petroleum is “neft /naft kham”.

نفت خام

Note the word “kham” which is defined as raw, crude and green(immature)/ ԽԱԿ.

i.e raw, crude oil (petrol), and looking up “neft/naft” in Persian we this Neft=oil, petroleum… naft lamba= kerosene. Note that above we said in the Armenian “qaryough” mainly refers to kerosene.

Also note that some other people call kerosene “gazya” from “gaz-yaghi”-oil of gaz/gas.

 

Kerosene, sometimes spelled kerosine in scientific and industrial usage,[1] also known as paraffin in the United Kingdom and South Africa, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid. The name is derived from Greek keros (κηρός wax). The word Kerosene was registered as a trademark by Abraham Gesner in 1854 and for several years only the North American Gas Light Company and the Downer Company (to which Gesner had granted the right) were allowed to call their lamp oil kerosene.[2] It eventually became a genericized trademark.

 

http://www.justtexas.com/images/pottery/largekerosenelamp.jpg

 

Also note that some other people call kerosene “gazya” from “gaz-yaghi”-oil of gaz/gas.

 

i. gazyağı, parafin

kerosene

i. gazyağı, gaz.

 

Looking up Քարիւղ /Քարյուղ/Qaryough we are redirected to

ՆԱՎԹ= Քարիւղ (WA), քարաձյութ, քարձյութ, քարձեթ, նփատ**

 

**I have no idea what this is. Is it Russian as in “nphat“, or are some of us dyslexic seeing “նափտա/naphtha as նփատա/nphata? Note the juxtaposition of the PH and A?

We all know the old Armenian adage- “Քարեն հաց կը հանէ- Extracts bread from stone”. But we don’t have an adage saying “Քարեն իւղ կը հանէ” WHY???

 

Even if at the present the word is usually applied to kerosene. Note the similarity of “kariugh” and “kerosene”.

Of course now in England the baseliner is simply known as “petrol”.

Below we see the history, that it had been known even 4000 years ago.

4000 years?

BTW. Atrbatakan means “land of fire” based on the fact that at times the petroleum oozing out would catch on fire. “spontaneous combustion”?

http://www.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2005/5/9/1_539522_1_34.jpg

 

Then what were those camel jockeys in bokhu and babylon doing in the meantime, until that is the likes of Galoust Gulbenkian and Rockefeller taught them how to drill?

 

http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/8911/wm/pd1194790.jpg

 

http://www.freefoto.com/images/13/69/13_69_7---Nodding-Donkey-Oil-Well--North-Dakota--USA-_web.jpg?&k=Nodding+Donkey+Oil+Well%2C+North+Dakota%2C+USA%2C

 

Did those American and Armenian geologist prospectors know that today we would become their slaves??? Smelling their stinky “petrid pharty air“, camel brand deodorant?

 

Even if I have reservations about wiki-mickey mouse media!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_petroleum

 

Early history-More than four thousand years ago, according to Herodotus and confirmed by Diodorus Siculus, asphalt was employed in the construction of the walls and towers of Babylon; there were oil pits near Ardericca (near Babylon), and a pitch spring on Zacynthus ( Ionian islands, Greece ).[1] Great quantities of it were found on the banks of the river Issus, one of the tributaries of the Euphrates. Ancient Persian tablets indicate the medicinal and lighting uses of petroleum in the upper levels of their society.

Oil was exploited in the Roman province of Dacia, now in Romania, where it was called picula.

The earliest known oil wells were drilled in China in 347 AD or earlier. They had depths of up to about 800 feet (240 m) and were drilled using bits attached to bamboo poles.[2] The oil was burned to evaporate brine and produce salt. By the 10th century, extensive bamboo pipelines connected oil wells with salt springs. The ancient records of China and Japan are said to contain many allusions to the use of natural gas for lighting and heating. Petroleum was known as burning water in Japan in the 7th century.[1] In his book Dream Pool Essays written in 1088, the polymathic scientist and statesman Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty coined the word 石油 (Shíyóu, literally "rock oil") for petroleum, which remains the term used in contemporary Chinese.

The first streets of Baghdad were paved with tar, derived from petroleum that became accessible from natural fields in the region. In the 9th century, oil fields were exploited in the area around modern Baku, Azerbaijan. These fields were described by the Arab geographer Abu al-Hasan 'Alī al-Mas'ūdī in the 10th century, and by Marco Polo in the 13th century, who described the output of those wells as hundreds of shiploads. Petroleum was distilled by the Persian alchemist, Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi (Rhazes), in the 9th century,[3] producing chemicals such as kerosene in the alembic (al-ambiq),[4] and which was mainly used for kerosene lamps.[5] Arab and Persian chemists also distilled crude oil in order to produce flammable products for military purposes. Through Islamic Spain, distillation became available in Western Europe by the 12th century.[6] It has also been present in Romania since the 13th century, being recorded as păcură.[7]

The earliest mention of petroleum in the Americas occurs in Sir Walter Raleigh's account of the Trinidad Pitch Lake in 1595; while thirty-seven years later, the account of a visit of a Franciscan, Joseph de la Roche d'Allion, to the oil springs of New York was published in Sagard's Histoire du Canada. A Finnish born Swede, scientist and student of Carl Linnaeus, Peter Kalm, in his work Travels into North America published first in 1753 showed on a map the oil springs of Pennsylvania.[1]

In 1710 or 1711 (sources vary) the Russian-born Swiss physician and Greek teacher Eyrini d’Eyrinis (also spelled as Eirini d'Eirinis) discovered asphaltum at Val-de-Travers, (Neuchâtel). He established a bitumen mine de la Presta there in 1719 that operated until 1986.[8][9][10][11]

In 1745 under the Empress Elisabeth of Russia the first oil well and refinery were built in Ukhta by Fiodor Priadunov. Through the process of distillation of the "rock oil" (petroleum) he received a kerosene-like substance, which was used in oil lamps by Russian churches and monasteries (though households still relied on candles).[12]

Oil sands were mined from 1745 in Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, Alsace under the direction of Louis Pierre Ancillon de la Sablonnière, by special appointment of Louis XV.[13] The Pechelbronn oil field was active until 1970, and was the birth place of companies like Antar and Schlumberger. The first modern refinery was built there in 1857.[13]

Edited April 16, 2011 by Arpa

[Louise Kiffer]

An od Armenian woman used to say: les Armeniens, les Armeniens, sekhmel pierre sortir de l'eau -