كهنايا
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Arabic[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- كَهْيَانَا (kahyānā), of wider distribution but taṣḥīf, for it mimics a common borrowed ending in عَجَمِيّ (ʕajamiyy, “foreign, Persian”) words as in رازیانه (rāziyānā), بادیانه (bādiyāna), hence in Persian کهیانه (kahyāna) beside کهیانا (kahyānā)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܥܷܣܒܳܐ ܟܳܗܢܳܝܳܐ (ʕesbā kāhnāyā, “peony”, literally “priestly grass”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
كَهْنَايَا • (kahnāyā) f
- (obsolete) peony (Paeonia gen. et spp.)
- Synonyms: فَاوَانِيَا (fāwāniyā), عُود الصَّلِيب (ʕūd aṣ-ṣalīb), (al-Andalus) وَرْد الْحَمِير (ward al-ḥamīr)
Declension[edit]
Declension of noun كَهْنَايَا (kahnāyā)
| Singular | singular invariable | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
الْكَهْنَايَا al-kahnāyā |
كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
| Nominative | كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
الْكَهْنَايَا al-kahnāyā |
كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
| Accusative | كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
الْكَهْنَايَا al-kahnāyā |
كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
| Genitive | كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
الْكَهْنَايَا al-kahnāyā |
كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
Descendants[edit]
- → Classical Persian: کهنایا (kahnāyā)
References[edit]
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1125, still incorrect
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “كهيانا”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 496a
- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 366
- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden[3] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 124
- Ullmann, Manfred (1959–1970) Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache. Band I (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 579b