شلجم
Arabic
Alternative forms
- سَلْجَم (saljam), شَلْغَم (šalḡam)
Etymology
From Persian شلغم (šalğam), ultimately from Ancient Greek σικελικόν (sikelikón, literally “the Sicilian one”); doublet of سِلْق (silq).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃal.d͡ʒam/
Noun
شَلْجَم • (šaljam) m
- turnip (Brassica rapa)
- rape, rutabaga (Brassica napus)
- (geometry) parabola
Declension
Declension of noun شَلْجَم (šaljam)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | شَلْجَم šaljam | الشَّلْجَم aš-šaljam | شَلْجَم šaljam |
Nominative | شَلْجَمٌ šaljamun | الشَّلْجَمُ aš-šaljamu | شَلْجَمُ šaljamu |
Accusative | شَلْجَمًا šaljaman | الشَّلْجَمَ aš-šaljama | شَلْجَمَ šaljama |
Genitive | شَلْجَمٍ šaljamin | الشَّلْجَمِ aš-šaljami | شَلْجَمِ šaljami |
Derived terms
- شَلْجَمِيّ (šaljamiyy, “parabolic”)
Descendants
- → Galician: acelga
- → Middle Armenian: շալճամ (šalčam), սալճամ (salčam)
- → Portuguese: acelga
- → Spanish: acelga
- → Ottoman Turkish: شلجم (şelcem)
References
- Freytag, Georg (1833), “شلجم”, 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 446
- Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 346–352