أنجدان

Arabic

أَنْجُدَان

Alternative forms

  • أَنْجُذَان (ʔanjuḏān) archaic

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian انگدان (angodân), from Proto-Iranian *Hanguǰatu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔan.d͡ʒu.daːn/

Noun

أَنْجُدَان • (ʔanjudān) m

  1. Ferula assa-foetida
    • 1025, ابن سينا (Avicenna), القانون في الطب‎, Rome: Stamperia Orientale Medicea, published 1593, Liber 2, page 174:
      قال ديسقوريدوس في كتابه ان الحلتيث صمغ الانجدان و ذكر بان يشرط اصله وساقه ثم بعد الشرط يسيل منه الحلتيث […]
      Dioscurides said in his book that hing is the resin of the Ferula assa-foetida and he notified that its stem and its foot is slit and then, after the slitting, the hing flows from it. […]

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle Armenian: անճուտան (ančutan), անճիտան (ančitan)
  • Old Catalan: alanjoden
  • Persian: انجدان (anjodân)
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