صراخة

See also: صراحة

Arabic

صَرَّاخَة

Etymology

From the root ص ر خ (ṣ-r-ḵ), so called in Spain because one believed that a cry of this plant on St. John’s Day indicates death in the same year.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˤar.raː.xa/

Noun

صَرَّاخَة • (ṣarrāḵa) f

  1. (al-Andalus) dragonwort, common dragon (Dracunculus vulgaris)

Declension

References

  • صراخة on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ar
  • Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 305a
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “صراخة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 827a
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