قرنبيط
Arabic
قَرْنَبِيط
Alternative forms
- قُنَّبِيط (qunnabīṭ)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κραμβίδιον (krambídion), the diminutive of κράμβη (krámbē).[1][2][3][4] Doublet of كُرُنْب (kurunb).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /qar.na.biːtˤ/
Noun
قَرْنَبِيط • (qarnabīṭ) m
- cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis)
- 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. 16, page 684:
- وأما اختزان القنبيط والرازيانج الغض لمن أحب أن يأكلها في غير أيامها فيخزن ذلك في الخل على ما أصف يؤخذ قلوب القنبيط وينصف ويغمر في الخل ويجعل فيه شيء من الفوذنج ويطين رأس الإناء ويرفع وأما فضبان الرازيانج الغض فينشر ويعمل بها مثل ذلك.
- In what concerns the preservation of cauliflower and fresh fennel, for him who likes to eat them off-season, these get preserved in vinegar in the following fashion: One takes the hearts of the cauliflower and halves and dunks into the vinegar and puts some pennyroyal into it and daubs the head of the receptacle and lifts it, and for the stalks of the fresh fennel, they are spread and the same is done with them.
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Declension
Declension of noun قَرْنَبِيط (qarnabīṭ)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | قَرْنَبِيط qarnabīṭ | الْقَرْنَبِيط al-qarnabīṭ | قَرْنَبِيط qarnabīṭ |
| Nominative | قَرْنَبِيطٌ qarnabīṭun | الْقَرْنَبِيطُ al-qarnabīṭu | قَرْنَبِيطُ qarnabīṭu |
| Accusative | قَرْنَبِيطًا qarnabīṭan | الْقَرْنَبِيطَ al-qarnabīṭa | قَرْنَبِيطَ qarnabīṭa |
| Genitive | قَرْنَبِيطٍ qarnabīṭin | الْقَرْنَبِيطِ al-qarnabīṭi | قَرْنَبِيطِ qarnabīṭi |
Descendants
- → Hijazi Arabic: قَرْنَبيط
- → Ottoman Turkish: قرنابیت (karnabit), قنبیط (kunnebit)
- Turkish: karnabit
- → Albanian: karnabit
- → Armenian: կառնապիթ (kaṙnapitʿ)
- → Bulgarian: карнаби́т (karnabít)
- → Greek: καρναμπίτι (karnampíti), καρναμπίκι (karnampíki), κουνουπίδι (kounoupídi) (see there for further descendants)
- → Northern Kurdish: kárnabit[5]
- → Persian: قنبیط (qambit, qunnabit)
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “կաղամբ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 493a
- Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 238b
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1979), “карнабит”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 250
- Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, LCCN 96052434, page 443a
- Stachowski, Stanisław (2004), “Türkische Lehnwörter im kurdischen Wörterbuch von P. Maurizio Garzoni (1787)”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia (in German), volume 9, page 150 of 143–158
Further reading
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “قرنبيط”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 340
- Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “قرنبيط”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1022
Hijazi Arabic
قَرْنَبيط
Etymology
From Arabic قَرْنَبِيط (qarnabīṭ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡarnaˈbiːtˤ/
Noun
قَرْنَبيط • (garnabīṭ) m pl
- cauliflower