قرطم

Arabic

قُرْطُم – Carthamus tinctorius

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܩܽܘܪܛܡܳܐ (qūrṭəmā, “safflower”), from ܩܰܪܛܶܡ (qarṭem, “to cut off gently, to trim”), from the plucking off petals which are used for dyeing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qur.tˤum/

Noun

قُرْطُم • (qurṭum) m

1. distaff thistle (Carthamus gen. et spp.)

Declension

Declension of noun قُرْطُم (qurṭum)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قُرْطُم qurṭum	الْقُرْطُم al-qurṭum	قُرْطُم qurṭum
Nominative	قُرْطُمٌ qurṭumun	الْقُرْطُمُ al-qurṭumu	قُرْطُمُ qurṭumu
Accusative	قُرْطُمًا qurṭuman	الْقُرْطُمَ al-qurṭuma	قُرْطُمَ qurṭuma
Genitive	قُرْطُمٍ qurṭumin	الْقُرْطُمِ al-qurṭumi	قُرْطُمِ qurṭumi

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: ղրտում (ġrtum)
• → Medieval Latin: carthamus
  • → French: carthame
  • → Italian: cartamo
  • → Spanish: cártamo
  • Translingual: Carthamus

References

• Löw, Immanuel (1922) “Semitische Färberpflanzen”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, pages 111–114

Further reading

• قرطم on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar
• “qrṭm”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–