شكوهج

Arabic

شكوهجTribulus terrestris

Alternative forms

  • شَكُوهَنْج (šakūhanj)

Etymology

From Middle Persian equivalent to Classical Persian شکوهه (šukōha, caltrop, literally beauty, ornament).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃa.kuː.had͡ʒ/ or IPA(key): /ʃi.kuː.had͡ʒ/

Noun

شَكُوهَج or شِكُوهَج • (šakūhaj or šikūhaj) m

  1. (obsolete, uncommon) puncture-vine, caltrop (Tribulus terrestris)
    Synonyms: قَطْب (qaṭb), شَرْشَر (šaršar), حَسَك (ḥasak), ضِرْس الْعَجُوز (ḍirs al-ʕajūz), حِمِّص الْجَبَل (ḥimmiṣ al-jabal), حِمِّص الْأَمِير (ḥimmiṣ al-ʔamīr), عُرْمُط (ʕurmuṭ)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of كتاب عمدة الطبيب في معرفة النبات لكل لبيب to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ibn al-Bayṭār to this entry?)

Declension

Further reading

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “شِكُوهَنْج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 780a
  • 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, § 151, pages 74–75
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