خطمي

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Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

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Particularly: “The varying first vowel and even more so the varying second consonant are suspicious, and I fail to imagine a connection to either root”

Noun

خِطْمِيّ or خَطْمِيّ (ḵiṭmiyy or ḵaṭmiyym (collective, singulative خِطْمِيَّة f (ḵiṭmiyya) or خَطْمِيَّة (ḵaṭmiyya))

  1. marshmallow, Althaea(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace {{taxlink}} with {{taxfmt}} if already defined. Add nomul=1 if not defined.) gen. et spp.
  2. the confectionery marshmallow
  3. rosemallow, Hibiscus gen. et spp.

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خطمي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 503
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “خطمي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 768
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “خطمي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 288
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خطمي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 347