شلجم

Arabic
شَلْجَم

Alternative forms

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

  1. turnip (Brassica rapa)
  2. rape, rutabaga (Brassica napus)
  3. (geometry) parabola

Declension
Declension of noun شَلْجَم (šaljam)
Singular basic singular triptote
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
  • → Gujarati: શલજમ (śaljam)
  • → 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, pages 346–352
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