كشوث

Arabic

كُشُوت – Cuscuta approximata

Alternative forms

• كُشُوت (kušūt), كُشُوثَى (kušūṯā), كُشُوثَاء (kušūṯāʔ), كُشُوتاء (kušūtāʔ), أُكْشُوث (ʔukšūṯ), أُكْشُوت (ʔukšūt)

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic כְּשׁוּתָא / ܟܫܽܘܬܳܐ (kəšūṯā), probably from כַּשָׁא / ܟܰܫܳܐ (kašā, “to pile up”) because of the jumbled fashion in which this parasitic plant climbs trees, else from Akkadian 𒃢 (SILA₄ /⁠kasû⁠/), a plant with many small seeds used for spice, fumigation and medicine, just like dodder species.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.ʃuːθ/

Noun

كُشُوث • (kušūṯ) m

1. dodder (Cuscuta gen. et spp., especially Cuscuta epithymum)

   Synonym: حَامُول (ḥāmūl)

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Declension

Declension of noun كُشُوث (kušūṯ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	كُشُوث kušūṯ	الْكُشُوث al-kušūṯ	كُشُوث kušūṯ
Nominative	كُشُوثٌ kušūṯun	الْكُشُوثُ al-kušūṯu	كُشُوثُ kušūṯu
Accusative	كُشُوثًا kušūṯan	الْكُشُوثَ al-kušūṯa	كُشُوثَ kušūṯa
Genitive	كُشُوثٍ kušūṯin	الْكُشُوثِ al-kušūṯi	كُشُوثِ kušūṯi

Descendants

• → Medieval Latin: cuscūte, cuscūthe, cuscūta, cuscūtha
  • → Translingual: Cuscuta
    • → Turkish: küsküt
  • → Albanian: kuskuta
  • → Catalan: cuscuta, cúscuta
  • → French: cuscute
  • → Greek: κουσκούτα (kouskoúta)
  • → Italian: cuscuta
  • → Portuguese: cuscuta
  • → Spanish: cuscuta
• → Middle Armenian: քշութ (kʻšutʻ), քշուշ (kʻšuš), քշուս (kʻšus), աքշուշ (akʻšuš)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “كشوث”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 469
• Lagarde, Paul de (1887) Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, pages 358–359