جميز

Arabic

جُمَّيْز

Etymology

Diminutive from a lost word from Aramaic גמיז.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒum.majz/

Noun

جُمَّيْز • (jummayz) m (collective, singulative جُمَّيْزَة f (jummayza))

  1. fig-mulberry, sycomore (Ficus sycomorus)
    Synonym: سَوْقَم (sawqam)

Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 140
  • Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 274–280
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “جميز”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 197
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