Talk:کما
Which origin word for the Ferula word
[edit]They say in Oliver Kahl, editor (2015), The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian Sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes (in Arabic), Leiden, Boston: Brill, RḤ 9/144,20–145,1 Footnote 209, page 227 about Classical Persian کماشیر (kamāšīr) whence Arabic كَمَاشِير (kamāšīr) that it “has no doubt a Sanskrit etymology”. I understood this as for کما (kumā, kamā) (which is much used now) instead as کماشیر (kamāšīr) seems to be a compound, like گاوشیر (gāwšīr) whence Arabic جَاوَشِير (jāwašīr), شیر (šīr, “milk”) being the galbanum. But I have given up searching its Sanskrit word. @Bhagadatta, AryamanA (oh well, nobody else to ping on Sanskrit 🙁, and nobody in {{wgping}}) Fay Freak (talk) 20:03, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Fay Freak: It does not look like a Sanskrit etymon to me. The word कुमार (kumāra) refers to various plants and कमल (kamala) means a lotus and this is the closest कुम/कम have come in terms of having a botanical meaning. -- Bhagadatta (talk) 02:59, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
@Bhagadatta: Given the wide distribution of the Ancient Greek word for gum – which shows by its ending that it is from Egyptian –, this can safely be considered one way or the other from it; the family of the Persian word is thus established, though the exact borrowing paths might remain doubted; I opt for Aramaic since it was between the Greek and Persian language areas in the era in question and the vocalization and the ending also of the Amharic fits unto it, as well as the mere possibility of it reaching Ethiopia which is most easily via Aramaic, as many other words. The meaning connection is via various abortificient gums. Fay Freak (talk) 20:15, 18 March 2020 (UTC)