nabk

English

Wikispecies

Ziziphus spina-christi

Alternative forms

• nabak, nabq, nubk, nebeck, nebbuk, nebak

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَبْق (nabq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæb(ə)k/

Noun

nabk (plural nabks)

1. Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
   • 1870, Christian Henry Bateman, editor, The Bible class magazine, volume 10, page 61:

     Now we passed through a grove of palms, with their long bare stems and their feathery tufts lying motionless in the air; now through a forest of acacias and nabks; now along the edge of a deep canal, and then through fields of greenest corn […]

2. The edible berry of Ziziphus lotus.

Anagrams

• Bank, Knab, bank, knab