قرطم

Arabic

قُرْطُم‎

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܩܽܘܪܛܡܳܐ (qūrṭəmā, “safflower”), from ܩܰܪܛܶܡ (qarṭem, “to cut off gently, to trim”), from the plucking off petals which are used for dyeing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qur.tˤum/

Noun

قُرْطُم‎ • (qurṭum) m

1. distaff thistle (Carthamus)

Declension

Declension of noun قُرْطُم‎ (qurṭum)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قُرْطُم‎ qurṭum	الْقُرْطُم‎ al-qurṭum	قُرْطُم‎ qurṭum
Nominative	قُرْطُم‎ٌ qurṭumun	الْقُرْطُم‎ُ al-qurṭumu	قُرْطُم‎ُ qurṭumu
Accusative	قُرْطُم‎ًا qurṭuman	الْقُرْطُم‎َ al-qurṭuma	قُرْطُم‎َ qurṭuma
Genitive	قُرْطُم‎ٍ qurṭumin	الْقُرْطُم‎ِ al-qurṭumi	قُرْطُم‎ِ qurṭumi

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: ղրտում (ġrtum)

Further reading

• قرطم on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar
• “qrṭm”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

References

• Löw, Immanuel (1922) “Semitische Färberpflanzen”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, pages 111–114