أسفراج
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See also: اسفراج
Arabic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- أَسْفَارَاج (ʔasfārāj), أَسْفَارَنْج (ʔasfāranj), أَسْفَرَاغ (ʔasfarāḡ)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]أَسْفَرَاج • (ʔasfarāj) f
- asparagus (Asparagus spp.)
- c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 30, Art. 8, page 429:
- وفيه ينضج الخوخ والرمان والسفرجل ويسود بعض حب الريتون ويطيب حب شجر المشتهى والبلوط والقسطل ويفصل الجوز وهو أفضل وقت جمعه وفيه يجمع الصنوبر والعناب ويظهر فيه الأسفاراج وفيه يبدئ بالحرث والزراعة بعد نزول الغيث وذلك في بعض البلاد وفيه تجمع الكراويا والكمون واللوبياء والدرونج وبزور الأحباق والكزبر والأرز وتقلع الحناء.
- In this ripen the peach, the pomegranate, and the quince, and some olives become black, and the common whitebeam and the oak and the chestnut become good, and the walnuts open, and it is the best time to gather them, and in it pines and jujubes are harvested, and in it asparagus appears, and one begins to till and sow after the rain in some regions, and one collects caraway and jeera and green beans and leopard’s bane and basil seeds and coriander and rice and pulls the henna.
Declension
[edit]Declension of noun أَسْفَرَاج (ʔasfarāj)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | أَسْفَرَاج ʔasfarāj |
الْأَسْفَرَاج al-ʔasfarāj |
أَسْفَرَاج ʔasfarāj |
Nominative | أَسْفَرَاجٌ ʔasfarājun |
الْأَسْفَرَاجُ al-ʔasfarāju |
أَسْفَرَاجُ ʔasfarāju |
Accusative | أَسْفَرَاجًا ʔasfarājan |
الْأَسْفَرَاجَ al-ʔasfarāja |
أَسْفَرَاجَ ʔasfarāja |
Genitive | أَسْفَرَاجٍ ʔasfarājin |
الْأَسْفَرَاجِ al-ʔasfarāji |
أَسْفَرَاجِ ʔasfarāji |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “أسفراج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 22
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “أسفراج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 35
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