دلب

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Arabic

دُلْبَة
 دلب on Arabic Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic דּוּלְבָא / ܕܘܠܒܐ (dulbā), from Akkadian 𒄑𒄢𒁍 (GIŠGUL.BU /⁠dulbu⁠/).

Pronunciation

Noun

دُلْب (dulbm (collective, singulative دُلْبَة f (dulba))

  1. oriental plane (Platanus orientalis, and Platanus gen. et spp.)
    • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام, edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة, volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 8, Art. 1, page 417:
      قال يونيوس يطعم الأترج كتطعيم الكرم وتطاعم التوت في الأترج والأترج في التفاح والتفاح في الأترج ويكون التفاح أحمر بالطبع إن ركب في شجر الدلب والقراسيا يحب التطعيم ويطعم في كرمة
      Junius said that the citron can be inoculated into the vine, and the mulberry into the citron, and the citron into the apple, and the apple into the citron, and the apple is naturally incarned if grafted onto the plane, and the cherry loves inoculation and can be inoculated into a vine.

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References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دلب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 456
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “دلب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 47
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 65–67
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 107
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “دلب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 402