زرشک
Persian
Alternative forms
- سرشک (serešk)
Etymology
Related to Northern Kurdish zerêşk, zirêşk, zirîşk, Gilaki [script needed] (zərəšk); Persian زریک (zirīk), زرک (zirik), زرنگ (zarang), زراج (zarāj), زراک (zarāk); Yidgha [script needed] (azīto); Khotanese ysālva; all meaning "barberry" and ultimately deriving from the word for "yellow": compare Persian زر (zar, “gold”).
Pronunciation
Noun
زرشک • (zerešk)
- barberry
- زرشک پلو ― zerešk polow ― barberry rice
- زرشک پلو با مرغ ― zerešk polow bâ morq ― barberry rice with chicken
- Synonyms: انبر باریس (anbar bâris), انبرباریس (anbarbâris), امبر باریس (ambar bâris), امبرباریس (ambarbâris), زارج (zârej), زارچ (zâreč)
Related terms
- زرشکی (zereški)
Descendants
- → Arabic: زَرَّشْك (zarrašk)
- → Classical Syriac: ܙܪܫܩ (zršq), ܣܪܫܩ (sršq)
- → Georgian: ზირიშკი (zirišḳi), ზერეშკი (zerešḳi), ზერეშქი (zereški), ზერენგი (zerengi) (Fereydan)
- → Middle Armenian: զրիշկ (zrišk)
- → Ottoman Turkish: زرشك (zirişk)
Interjection
زرشک • (zerešk)
Further reading
- Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 526
- Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 350a
- Bläsing, Uwe (2019) “Die armenischen Pflanzennamen in Peter Simon Pallas’ Flora Rossica. Eine Studie zu Etymologie und sprachlicher Interaktion”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15) (in German), Leuven: Peeters, pages 31–32
- Karimi, Hadi (1995) Plants of Iran : Scientific, English and Persian names, Tehran: Iran University Press, § 456f
- Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) Iranian Pamir Languages (Yidgha-Munji, Sanglechi-Ishkashmi and Wakhi) (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume II, Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., page 196a