إشقيل

Arabic

Alternative forms

إسْقِيل (ʔisqīl)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla). Perhaps more often rendered by ش (š) in Arabic, otherwise rare in Greek borrowings save for historical laminal /s/ pronunciation in Vulgar Latin or Romance engendering it, because in Classical Syriac in which the word had spread earlier it had ܣ (s) which corresponds in inherited cognates to Proto-Semitic *ś.

Noun

إشْقِيل • (ʔišqīl) m

squill (Drimia maritima)
Synonyms: عُنْصُل (ʕunṣul), بَصَل الفَأْر (baṣal al-faʔr)

Declension

Declension of noun إشْقِيل (ʔišqīl)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إشْقِيل ʔišqīl	الْإشْقِيل al-ʔišqīl	إشْقِيل ʔišqīl
Nominative	إشْقِيلٌ ʔišqīlun	الْإشْقِيلُ al-ʔišqīlu	إشْقِيلُ ʔišqīlu
Accusative	إشْقِيلًا ʔišqīlan	الْإشْقِيلَ al-ʔišqīla	إشْقِيلَ ʔišqīla
Genitive	إشْقِيلٍ ʔišqīlin	الْإشْقِيلِ al-ʔišqīli	إشْقِيلِ ʔišqīli

Descendants

→ Medieval Hebrew: אישקיל (ʾišqī́l)

References

مروان بن جناح (a. 1050) Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, editors, كتاب التلخيص [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 35 (fol. 6r,10–13), page 242 say that as the Syriac forms all have Classical Syriac ܣ (s), the form إسْقِيل (ʔisqīl) is “more correct”, which only makes sense if one grants that it was assumed from Syriac by Syriac medicine truchmen.
Maimonides (1940) Max Meyerhof, editor, Sharḥ asmāʾ al-ʿuqqār : L'explication des noms de drogues : Un glossaire de matière médicale de Maïmonide (in French), Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut française d'archéologie orientale, page 33 Nr. 60