أترج

Arabic

أُتْرُجّ

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic אַתְרוּגָּא (ʾaṯruggā, ʾaṯrungā), from Old Persian [script needed] (turung), from Sanskrit मातुलुङ्ग (mātuluṅga). Cognate to Classical Syriac ܐܛܪܘܓܐ (ʾaṭruggā, ʾaṭrungā).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔut.rud͡ʒd͡ʒ/

Noun

أُتْرُجّ • (ʔutrujj) m (collective, singulative أُتْرُجَّة f (ʔutrujja))

  1. citron (Citrus medica)

Declension

References

  • أترج” in Almaany
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 139
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أترج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 4
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