كهنايا

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Arabic

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 كَهنايا on Arabic Wikipedia
كَهْناياPaeonia officinalis

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܥܷܣܒܳܐ ܟܳܗܢܳܝܳܐ (ʕesbā kāhnāyā, peony, literally priestly grass).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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كَهْنَايَا (kahnāyāf

  1. (obsolete) peony (Paeonia gen. et spp.)
    Synonyms: فَاوَانِيَا (fāwāniyā), عُود الصَّلِيب (ʕūd aṣ-ṣalīb), (al-Andalus) وَرْد الْحَمِير (ward al-ḥamīr)

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Classical Persian: کهنایا (kahnāyā)

References

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  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1125, still incorrect
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “كهيانا”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 496a
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 366
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden[3] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 124
  • Ullmann, Manfred (1959–1970) Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache. Band I (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 579b