جعفيل

Arabic

Etymology

A blend of ج ع ف (j-ʕ-f) related to prostration and ج ع ل (j-ʕ-l) related to putting, laying, for this plant runs an estate into the ground.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒaʕ.fiːl/

Noun

جَعْفِيل • (jaʕfīl) m

  1. broomrape (Orobanche gen. et spp.)
    Synonyms: أَسَد الْعَدَس (ʔasad al-ʕadas), هَالُوك (hālūk), خَانِق الْكَرْسَنَّة (ḵāniq al-karsanna)
    • a. 1248, ابن البيطار [Ibn al-Bayṭār], الجامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية [De simplicibus medicinis opus magnum]:
      جعفيل: هو الدواء المسمى باليونانية أورنفحي وقد ذكرته في حرف الألف التي بعدها واو فتأمله هناك.
      Broomrape: This is the drug named in Greek ὀροβάγχη (orobánkhē) and I already mentioned it under the letter A whereafter W and look there.

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References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 271
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