زنبوج

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Etymology

A Berber borrowing.

Pronunciation

Noun

زَنْبُوج or زُنْبُوج (zanbūj or zunbūjm (collective, singulative زَنْبُوجَة f (zanbūja) or زُنْبُوجَة (zunbūja), plural زَنَابِيج (zanābīj))

  1. wild olive (Olea europaea var. sylvestris)
    • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 8, Art. 1, page 419:
      وَقَالَ مَرْسِيَالُ يُرَكَّبُ ٱلْعِنَبُ فِي ٱلْعِنَبِ وَٱلتُّفَّاحُ فِي ٱلتُّفَّاحِ وَفِي ٱلْكُمَّثْرَى وَٱلزَّيْتُونُ فِي ٱلزَّنْبُوجِ وَٱلْخَوْخُ فِي ٱللَّوْزِ وَفِي ٱلْإِجَّاصِ وَيُرَكَّبُ ٱلْخَوْخُ فِي ٱلْخَوْخِ وَٱلْأُتْرُجُّ فِي ٱلتِّينِ وَفِي ذُكَّارِ ٱلتِّينِ وَفِي ٱلْكُمَّثْرَى ٱنْتَهَى قَوْلُهُ.
      waqāla marsiyālu yurakkabu l-ʕinabu fī l-ʕinabi wat-tuffāḥu fī t-tuffāḥi wafī l-kummaṯrā waz-zaytūnu fī z-zanbūji wal-ḵawḵu fī l-lawzi wafī l-ʔijjāṣi wayurakkabu l-ḵawḵu fī l-ḵawḵi wal-ʔutrujju fī t-tīni wafī ḏukkāri t-tīni wafī l-kummaṯrā ntahā qawluhu.
      Martialis said that vines can be grafted on vines, apples on apples and pears, olives on wild olives, peaches on almonds and plums, peaches on peaches, and citrons on figs and caprifigs and pears.

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