زرنب

Arabic

زَرْنَبTaxus baccata

Etymology

Unknown, the same as Classical Syriac ܙܪܢܒ (zarnVḇ), ܙܪܢܦ (zarnVp̄), ܙܪܢܘܒܬܐ (zarnūḇtā), ܙܪܢܘܦܬܐ (zarnūp̄tā), ܙܪܩܘܦܬܐ (zarqūp̄tā), seemingly containing ܙܪܥܐ (zarʿā, seed) often used in names of plants particularly if they provide spices.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zar.nab/, /zar.nub/

Noun

زَرْنَب or زَرْنُب • (zarnab or zarnub) m

  1. (obsolete) mountain spignel (Libanotis pyrenaica) or sticky goosefoot (Dysphania botrys)
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 44:135:
      زَوْجِي الرِّيحُ رِيحُ زَرْنَبٍ وَٱلْمَسُّ مَسُّ أَرْنَبٍ
      zawjī r-rīḥu rīḥu zarnabin wa-l-massu massu ʔarnabin
      My husband has the smell of mountain spignel, and the feel of a hare.
    • a. 735, ذو الرمة [Ḏū ar-Rumma], poet identified in كتاب الأفعال of سعيد بن محمد المعافري القرطبي ثم السرقسطي، أبو عثمان، ويعرف بابن الحداد:
      وَإِنَّمَا أَنْتِ وَفُوكِ الْأَشْنَب … كَأَنَّمَا ذِرَّ عَلَيْهِ زَرْنَب
      wa-ʔinnamā ʔanti wa-fū-ki l-ʔašnab … kaʔannamā ḏirra ʕalay-hi zarnab
      Forsooth, you and your luscious mouth: it is as if cicely were strewn on it!
  2. (obsolete) coffee plum, East Indian plum (Flacourtia cataphracta syn. Flacourtia jangomas)
  3. yew (Taxus baccata)
    • 1025, ابن سينا [Avicenna], القانون في الطب [Canon Medicinae]:
      زرنَب‏:‏ الماهية‏:‏ قضبان دقاق مستديرة الشكل ما بين غلظ المسلة إلى غلظ الأقلام سود إلى الصفرة ليس له كثير طعم ولا رائحة والقليلة من رائحته عطرية أترجة وقوته قوة جوزبوا ولكنه ألطف منه قليلاً وقد يقوم بدلاً عن الدارصيني فيما يقال‏.‏
      الطبع‏:‏ حار يابس في الثانية‏.‏
      الأفعال‏:‏ فيه قبض وتحليل للرياح‏.‏
      أعضاء الرأس‏:‏ يسعط بالماء ودهن الورد للصداع البارد‏.‏
      أعضاء الغذاء‏:‏ نافع للكبد والمعدة الباردتين منفعة بينة جداً‏.‏
      أعضاء النفض‏:‏ يعقل البطن فيما يقال‏.‏
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Declension

Descendants

  • Middle Armenian: զառնաբ (zaṙnab)

References

  • zrnwph”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • zrˁ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • nwb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • qwp3”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
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  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “زرنب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 589
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زرنب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 235
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  • Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 364–366
  • Maimonides (1940) Max Meyerhof, editor, Sharḥ asmāʾ al-ʿuqqār : L'explication des noms de drogues : Un glossaire de matière médicale de Maïmonide (in French), Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut française d'archéologie orientale, page 67 Nr. 137
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “زرنب”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 130a
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