بامبوزيا
Arabic
بامبوزيا – Syzygium cumini
Alternative forms
- كَامْبُوزَة (kāmbūza), كَمْبُوز (kambūz), زُونِيَا (zūniyā) — unidentified Egyptian or Sudanese dialects
- جَمْبُول (jambūl), جَمْبُولَان (jambūlān), جَامْبُو (jāmbū), جَمْبُو (jambū), جَمُّون (jammūn)
Etymology
From various descendants of Sanskrit जम्बुल (jambula). The most common form, here chosen as the title, is apparently thus extremely garbled by Egyptian Arabic speakers owing to the plant, requiring intense tropical conditions, growing only at scattered spots of the Arabic-speaking countries – limited-use plant names tend to be distorted, compare e.g. the forms environing Russian берескле́т (beresklét, “spindle-tree”). Going further, it has even been argued that زَنْبُوع (zanbūʕ, “pomelo”) is derived from this wanderword.
Declension
Declension of noun بَامْبُوزِيَا (bāmbūziyā)
| Singular | singular invariable | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | بَامْبُوزِيَا bāmbūziyā |
الْبَامْبُوزِيَا al-bāmbūziyā |
بَامْبُوزِيَا bāmbūziyā |
| Nominative | بَامْبُوزِيَا bāmbūziyā |
الْبَامْبُوزِيَا al-bāmbūziyā |
بَامْبُوزِيَا bāmbūziyā |
| Accusative | بَامْبُوزِيَا bāmbūziyā |
الْبَامْبُوزِيَا al-bāmbūziyā |
بَامْبُوزِيَا bāmbūziyā |
| Genitive | بَامْبُوزِيَا bāmbūziyā |
الْبَامْبُوزِيَا al-bāmbūziyā |
بَامْبُوزِيَا bāmbūziyā |
Further reading
- “تعرف إيه عن البامبوزيا.. فاكهة غريبة شكل الزيتون وطعم الكريز”, in Al-Balad, 2019 July 31
شجرة البامبوزيا on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ar- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “جُمُونٌ”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 219b
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