شيلثا

Arabic

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܫܷܐܠܬܳܐ (šelṯā, “petition, postulation”, hence “anything that one desires”, hence “panacea”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃiːl.θaː/

Noun

شِيلْثَا • (šīlṯā) m

  1. (obsolete) theriac, treacle, antidote, remedy
    • c. 900, أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي (Rhazes), edited by Oliver Kahl, The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian Sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes (كتاب الحاوي) (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 93), Leiden: Brill, published 2015, →ISBN, RḤ 1/173,17–174,20, page 176:
      ويعظم نفع الكماد الحار لهم والسعوط بمرارة الكركي بماء السلق ونحوها أو الشيلثا بماء الشابانك.
      The greatest avail for them lies in a hot compress or an errhine of crane gallstone with beetroot water or the like or treacle with horseweed water.

Declension
Declension of noun شِيلْثَا (šīlṯā)
Singular singular invariable
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal شِيلْثَا
šīlṯā		 الشِّيلْثَا
aš-šīlṯā		 شِيلْثَا
šīlṯā
Nominative شِيلْثَا
šīlṯā		 الشِّيلْثَا
aš-šīlṯā		 شِيلْثَا
šīlṯā
Accusative شِيلْثَا
šīlṯā		 الشِّيلْثَا
aš-šīlṯā		 شِيلْثَا
šīlṯā
Genitive شِيلْثَا
šīlṯā		 الشِّيلْثَا
aš-šīlṯā		 شِيلْثَا
šīlṯā

Derived terms
  • شِيلْثَا كَبِير (šīlṯā kabīr, “Venice treacle, theriaca magna”)

Further reading
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