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Arabic
Etymology
Cognate to Hebrew ח־מ־ץ (ḥ-m-ṣ) and Aramaic ח־מ־ע / ܚ-ܡ-ܥ (ḥ-m-ʿ).
Root
ح م ض • (ḥ-m-ḍ)
- sour
Derived terms
- حَمْض (ḥamḍ, “a term used by Bedouins for saline, mostly chenopodiaceous and zygophyllaceous plants; acid”)
- حُمُوضَة (ḥumūḍa, “acidity”)
- حُمَّاض (ḥummāḍ, “sorrel”)
- حَمْضَة (ḥamḍa, “eager desire”)
- حَمِيضَة (ḥamīḍa, “land abounding with حَمْض (ḥamḍ)”)
- مَحْمَض (maḥmaḍ, “a place where camels pasture upon حَمْض (ḥamḍ)”)
References
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “ح م ض”, 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, pages 427a–b
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ح م ض”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 492b–493a
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ح م ض”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 644–645
- Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 339, and especially 190–196