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أقحوان

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Unknown, likely a lost Aramaic word that was borrowed comparatively early into Arabic, perhaps related to Jewish Palestinian Aramaic קוחא and Classical Syriac ܩܘܚܐ (qūḥā, stalk; petiole).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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أُقْحُوَان (ʔuqḥuwānm (collective, singulative أُقْحُوَانَة f (ʔuqḥuwāna), plural أَقَاحٍ (ʔaqāḥin) or أَقَاحِيّ (ʔaqāḥiyy))

  1. a name for various tubuliflorous composites of ligulate flower heads
    1. Chrysanthemum in a wide sense also including species otherwise sorted under Glebionis, Coleostephus
    2. Anthemis, Matricaria, Chamaemelum spp.
      Synonym: بَابُونَج (bābūnaj)
    3. Bellis spp.
      Synonym: زَهْر اللُؤْلُؤ (zahr al-luʔluʔ)
    4. (obsolete) Helichrysum spp.
      Synonym: ذَهَب الشَمْس (ḏahab aš-šams)
    5. (obsolete) Aster, Tripolium, Galatella spp.

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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 1005
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “أقحوان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 403
  • qwḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–