قرنفل

Arabic

قَرَنْفُل

قَرَنْفُل

قَرَنْفُل

قَرَنْفُل

Etymology

Imported from India. Compare Tamil கராம்பு (karāmpu), கிராம்பு (kirāmpu), Malayalam കറയാന്പൂ (kaṟayānpū), കരയാമ്പൂ (karayāmpū), ഗ്രാമ്പൂ (grāmpū), Sinhalese කරාබු (karābu), Dhivehi ކަރަންފޫ (karan̊fū), Thai กานพลู (gaan-pluu), Lao ກ້ານພູ (kān phū), Khmer ក្លាំពូ (klampuu), Tagalog klabong, klabos, kalabumpako, all meaning cloves. From the same source Ancient Greek καρυόφυλλον (karuóphullon), Classical Syriac ܩܪܦܠܢ,‎ ܩܪܦܠܘܢ, Amharic ቅርንፉድ (ḳərnəfud). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qa.ran.ful/

Noun

قَرَنْفُل • (qaranful) m

1. clove (Syzygium aromaticum)
2. carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus)

Declension

Declension of noun قَرَنْفُل (qaranful)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَرَنْفُل qaranful	الْقَرَنْفُل al-qaranful	قَرَنْفُل qaranful
Nominative	قَرَنْفُلٌ qaranfulun	الْقَرَنْفُلُ al-qaranfulu	قَرَنْفُلُ qaranfulu
Accusative	قَرَنْفُلًا qaranfulan	الْقَرَنْفُلَ al-qaranfula	قَرَنْفُلَ qaranfula
Genitive	قَرَنْفُلٍ qaranfulin	الْقَرَنْفُلِ al-qaranfuli	قَرَنْفُلِ qaranfuli

Descendants

• → Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܩܪܢܦܘܠܐ
• → Israeli Hebrew: קרנפול
• → Ottoman Turkish: قرنفل (karanfil)
  • Turkish: karanfil
  • → Adyghe: къэрмэфибл (qɛrmɛfibl)
  • → Albanian: karafil
  • → Armenian: խառանֆիլ (xaṙanfil), խարաֆիլ (xarafil), կանաֆիլ (kanafil)
  • → Bulgarian: каранфѝл (karanfìl), карамфѝл (karamfìl), карафѝль (karafìlʹ), ка̀рафил (kàrafil)
  • → Kazakh: qalampır
  • → Kurdish:

    Northern Kurdish: qerefîl, qerenfîl

    Central Kurdish: قەنەفِڵ (qenefill)

  • → Macedonian: каранфил (karanfil), каранфилче (karanfilče)
  • → Middle Armenian: ղարանֆիլ (ġaranfil), ղարանֆուլ (ġaranful)
  • → Persian: قرنفل (qaranfol)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кара̀нфил, каранфѝлић

    Latin script: karànfil, karanfìlić

• → Swahili: karafuu

References

• Gernot Katzer’s Spice Pages: Cloves (Syzygium aromaticum)
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 144
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 275–279
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 355
• “КАРАМФЍЛ”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “karànfil” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Hijazi Arabic

قُرُنْفُل

Etymology

From Arabic قَرَنْفُل (qaranful).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡurunful/, [ɡʊrʊɱfʊl]

Noun

قُرُنْفُل • (gurunful) m pl

1. carnation (flower)
2. clove (spice)

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قَرَنْفُل (qaranful),

Noun

قرنفل • (karanfil)

1. carnation (flower)
2. clove (spice)

Descendants

• Turkish: karanfil
• → Adyghe: къэрмэфибл (qɛrmɛfibl)
• → Albanian: karafil
• → Armenian: խառանֆիլ (xaṙanfil), խարաֆիլ (xarafil), կանաֆիլ (kanafil)
• → Bulgarian: каранфѝл (karanfìl), карамфѝл (karamfìl), карафѝль (karafìlʹ), ка̀рафил (kàrafil)
• → Kazakh: qalampır
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qerefîl, qerenfîl

  Central Kurdish: قەنەفِڵ (qenefill)

• → Macedonian: каранфил (karanfil), каранфилче (karanfilče)
• → Middle Armenian: ղարանֆիլ (ġaranfil), ղարանֆուլ (ġaranful)
• → Persian: قرنفل (qaranfol)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: кара̀нфил, каранфѝлић

  Latin script: karànfil, karanfìlić