إجاص
Arabic
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إِجَّاص
Etymology
Likely borrowed from Hebrew אַגָּס (ʾagā́s, “pear”); not attested in Aramaic, but attested in Akkadian 𒄑𒀭𒂵𒋗 (angašu, “pear or plum tree”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔid͡ʒ.d͡ʒaːsˁ/
Noun
إِجَّاص • (ʾijjāṣ) m (collective, singulative إِجَّاصَة (ʾijjāṣa))
- pears (the fruits as well as the tree, the whole genus Pyrus)
- Synonyms: كُمَّثْرَى (kummaṯrā), عَرْمُوط (ʿarmūṭ) (Iraq, West Yemen, also Syria (a Turkism))
- (al-Andalus (in educated speech – the other meaning is anyway used), today Iraq) plum (Prunus domestica)
- Synonyms: بَرْقُوق (barqūq) (means apricots in Al-Andalus), خَوْخ (ḵawḵ) (Syria, Jordania, Oman), عَبْقَر (ʿabqar) (Al-Andalus), عَيْن الْبَقَر (ʿayn al-baqar) (Tunisia, Libya, Al-Andalus)
- c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [Yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʾaḥmad ibn al-ʿawwām], José Antonio Banqueri, editor, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 9, Art. 1, page 508:
- الإجاص قال غ وهو عبقر إذا أشرف وقدم فلا يتعرض عليه بالحديد فإن دعت ضرورة لقطع أعلاه فينظر شجرته فإن ظهر فيها السوس فتحامى بالقطع ولا تقرب بالحديد بوجه وتنقى ما دام أملس الساق والأغصان محدثا.
- About the prune, that is the plum, says Ibn Ḥajjāj that when it is high and old it should not meet the iron, but if necessity calls then the top can be cut and the tree cleaned, and if rot appears on it then it can be warded off by cutting, and the iron should not approach it as long as the stem is smooth and the branches new.
Declension
Declension of noun إِجَّاص (ʾijjāṣ)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | إِجَّاص ʾijjāṣ | الْإِجَّاص al-ʾijjāṣ | إِجَّاص ʾijjāṣ |
| Nominative | إِجَّاصٌ ʾijjāṣun | الْإِجَّاصُ al-ʾijjāṣu | إِجَّاصُ ʾijjāṣu |
| Accusative | إِجَّاصًا ʾijjāṣan | الْإِجَّاصَ al-ʾijjāṣa | إِجَّاصَ ʾijjāṣa |
| Genitive | إِجَّاصٍ ʾijjāṣin | الْإِجَّاصِ al-ʾijjāṣi | إِجَّاصِ ʾijjāṣi |
References
- Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred, editors (2010) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100) (in German), Leiden: Brill, pages 499–502
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 139
- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 235–240
- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 208