عجور

Arabic

عَجُّور

Etymology

Disputed etymology largely in where it originates and the direction it was borrowed:

• From Middle Persian ʾngwl (angūr, “grape”) or alternatively Middle Persian ʾncyl (anjīr, “fig”); applied then generically to a green produce. Cognates with Persian غوره (ġure, “unripe, green produce; sour grapes”), Persian انگور (angur, “grapes”), Aramaic גורקא (gūraqā, “unripe fruit”), Aramaic גורג (gūrg, “wine made from unripe grapes”), and more distantly Sanskrit अङ्कुर (aṅkura, “shoot, bud, sprout”).
• Perhaps semantically derived from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion); compare its Slavic and Germanic descendants, Russian огуре́ц (oguréc, “cucumber”), German Gurke (“cucumber”); derived from Greek άγουρος (ágouros, “unripe, green, immature, inexperienced”), which disputably derives from Pahlavi, Aramaic, or natively from Ancient Greek ἄωρος (áōros, “immature, green, unripe”, literally “ἀ-+ὥρα, not season or time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕad͡ʒ.d͡ʒuːr/

Noun

عَجُّور • (ʕajjūr) m (collective, singulative عَجُّورَة f (ʕajjūra))

1. Egyptian cucumber, Luffa aegyptiaca

Declension

Declension of noun عَجُّور (ʕajjūr)

collective	basic collective triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	عَجُّور ʕajjūr	الْعَجُّور al-ʕajjūr	عَجُّور ʕajjūr
nominative	عَجُّورٌ ʕajjūrun	الْعَجُّورُ al-ʕajjūru	عَجُّورُ ʕajjūru
accusative	عَجُّورًا ʕajjūran	الْعَجُّورَ al-ʕajjūra	عَجُّورَ ʕajjūra
genitive	عَجُّورٍ ʕajjūrin	الْعَجُّورِ al-ʕajjūri	عَجُّورِ ʕajjūri
singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	عَجُّورَة ʕajjūra	الْعَجُّورَة al-ʕajjūra	عَجُّورَة ʕajjūrat
nominative	عَجُّورَةٌ ʕajjūratun	الْعَجُّورَةُ al-ʕajjūratu	عَجُّورَةُ ʕajjūratu
accusative	عَجُّورَةً ʕajjūratan	الْعَجُّورَةَ al-ʕajjūrata	عَجُّورَةَ ʕajjūrata
genitive	عَجُّورَةٍ ʕajjūratin	الْعَجُّورَةِ al-ʕajjūrati	عَجُّورَةِ ʕajjūrati
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	عَجُّورَتَيْن ʕajjūratayn	الْعَجُّورَتَيْن al-ʕajjūratayn	عَجُّورَتَيْ ʕajjūratay
nominative	عَجُّورَتَانِ ʕajjūratāni	الْعَجُّورَتَانِ al-ʕajjūratāni	عَجُّورَتَا ʕajjūratā
accusative	عَجُّورَتَيْنِ ʕajjūratayni	الْعَجُّورَتَيْنِ al-ʕajjūratayni	عَجُّورَتَيْ ʕajjūratay
genitive	عَجُّورَتَيْنِ ʕajjūratayni	الْعَجُّورَتَيْنِ al-ʕajjūratayni	عَجُّورَتَيْ ʕajjūratay
paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	عَجُّورَات ʕajjūrāt	الْعَجُّورَات al-ʕajjūrāt	عَجُّورَات ʕajjūrāt
nominative	عَجُّورَاتٌ ʕajjūrātun	الْعَجُّورَاتُ al-ʕajjūrātu	عَجُّورَاتُ ʕajjūrātu
accusative	عَجُّورَاتٍ ʕajjūrātin	الْعَجُّورَاتِ al-ʕajjūrāti	عَجُّورَاتِ ʕajjūrāti
genitive	عَجُّورَاتٍ ʕajjūrātin	الْعَجُّورَاتِ al-ʕajjūrāti	عَجُّورَاتِ ʕajjūrāti

Descendants

• → Northern Kurdish: ecûr
• → Middle Armenian: աճուր (ačur), աճուռ (ačuṙ), հաճուր (hačur)
  • Armenian: աջուռ (aǰuṙ), աջուր (aǰur), աջիր (aǰir), աճիր (ačir)
• → Oromo: ujuree
• → Ottoman Turkish: آجور (acur)
  • Turkish: acur
• → Zazaki: ecur

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893), “عجور”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1959a.
• Löw, Immanuel (1928), Die Flora der Juden‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 530–535
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “عجور”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 813
• Vollers, Karl (1896), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[3] (in German), volume 50, page 615