عصفر

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Arabic

عُصْفُر
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Etymology

From a variant of أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar), the atypical /ع/ occurs occasionally in some Arabic dialects in replacement of /أ/ due to the pharyngeal-aspect of a nearby emphatic consonant, namely /ص/.

Noun

عُصْفُر (ʕuṣfurm

  1. the seeds of the safflower
  2. the petals of the safflower
  3. the dye from the safflower

Declension

Derived terms

  • عَصْفَرَ (ʕaṣfara, to dye with safflower)
  • تَعَصْفَرَ (taʕaṣfara, to be dyed with safflower)

Descendants

  • Middle Armenian: ասփուր (aspʻur)
  • Ottoman Turkish: آصپور (aspur)
  • Persian: عصفر (ʿuṣfur)
  • Spanish: alazor

Verb

عَصْفَرَ (ʕaṣfara) Iq, non-past يُعَصْفِرُ‎ (yuʕaṣfiru)

  1. to dye with safflower

Conjugation

References

  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “عصفر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2064
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “عصفر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 845