زعرور

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Arabic

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زعرور

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Aramaic, there with forms as עוזררא, אנזעררתא, זרדתא, זרתא, זודתא, זירדתא, אוזר, חוזרר, חזרור, חיזרר, ܥܙܪܪܬܐ. Perhaps from an Egyptian expression like Sahidic Coptic ⲥⲟⲩⲣⲉ ⲁⲣⲟⲟⲩⲉ (soure arooue, literally needle-thistle), which would explain the distribution of similar Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon, medlar), Moroccan Arabic مزاح (mzāḥ, loquats, medlars), Proto-Kartvelian *sxmarṭl- (medlar), Middle Armenian զկեռ (zkeṙ, medlar), Persian ازگیل (azgil, medlar), Georgian ასკილი (asḳili, dog rose, briar). However as the speech is of pomefruits, the form חֲזְרוּרָא (ḥăzrūrā) may be most original and reduplicated from the known term ܚܙܘܪܐ / חֲזוּרָא (ḥăzzūrā, apple).

Noun

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زُعْرُور or زَعْرُور (zuʕrūr or zaʕrūrm (collective, singulative زُعْرُورَة f (zuʕrūra) or زَعْرُورَة (zaʕrūra))

  1. thornapple, medlar (Crataegus gen. et spp., fruit and tree)

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References

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  • زعرور on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ar
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  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen[4] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 283–289
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden[5] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 244–256
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “زعرور”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[6], London: W.H. Allen, page 456
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