أسفراج

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Arabic

أَسْفَرَاج

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos).

Pronunciation

Noun

أَسْفَرَاج (ʔasfarājf

  1. asparagus (Asparagus spp.)
    Synonyms: هِلْيَوْن (hilyawn), سَكُّوم (sakkūm)
    • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام, edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة, volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 30, Art. 8, page 429:
      وفيه ينضج الخوخ والرمان والسفرجل ويسود بعض حب الريتون ويطيب حب شجر المشتهى والبلوط والقسطل ويفصل الجوز وهو أفضل وقت جمعه وفيه يجمع الصنوبر والعناب ويظهر فيه الأسفاراج وفيه يبدئ بالحرث والزراعة بعد نزول الغيث وذلك في بعض البلاد وفيه تجمع الكراويا والكمون واللوبياء والدرونج وبزور الأحباق والكزبر والأرز وتقلع الحناء.
      In this ripen the peach, the pomegranate, and the quince, and some olives become black, and the common whitebeam and the oak and the chestnut become good, and the walnuts open, and it is the best time to gather them, and in it pines and jujubes are harvested, and in it asparagus appears, and one begins to till and sow after the rain in some regions, and one collects caraway and jeera and green beans and leopard’s bane and basil seeds and coriander and rice and pulls the henna.

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: spraġ
  • Ottoman Turkish: اسفراج (isfirac)

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “أسفراج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 22
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أسفراج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 35