turbith
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French turbit or its source, Medieval Latin turbithum, from Arabic تُرْبِد (turbid).
Noun[edit]
turbith (uncountable)
- A type of purgative drug made from the root of a type of morning glory plant (Operculina turpethum); or the plant itself.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, II.4.1.ii:
- […] turbith, agarick, mirabolanes, hermodactils from the East Indies, tobacco from the West […]
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
turbith m (plural turbiths)
Further reading[edit]
- “turbith”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.