حماض

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • حُمَّيْض (ḥummayḍ), حَمْبَاض (ḥambāḍ)

Etymology

From the root ح م ض (ḥ-m-ḍ) as حَامِض m (ḥāmiḍ, sour), حَمْض m (ḥamḍ, acid”; in Moroccan Arabic “lemon).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħum.maːdˤ/
  • (colloquial also) IPA(key): /ħam.maːdˤ/

Noun

حُمَّاض • (ḥummāḍ) m

  1. sorrel
  2. (possibly obsolete) citron pulp

Declension

Derived terms

  • حُمَّاض بُسْتَانِيّ (ḥummāḍ bustāniyy, sorrel)
  • حُمَّاضِيَّة (ḥummāḍiyya, medieval stew made with citron; Oxalidaceae)

Further reading

  • Mandaville, James Paul (1990) Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia, Riyadh: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 105–106
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “حماض”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Maxime Rodinson, Arthur John Arberry, Charles Perry, الطبيخ العربي في العصور الوسطى / Medieval Arab Cookery (2001)
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