شيراز

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Arabic

Etymology

From Persian شیراز (širâz).

Pronunciation

Noun

شِيرَاز (šīrāzm (plural شَرَارِيز (šarārīz) or شَوَارِيز (šawārīz))

  1. (obsolete) yoghurt drained of whey
    Synonym: قَنْبَرِيس (qanbarīs)
    • a. 1204, موسى بن ميمون (Maimonides), edited by Gerrit Bos, في تدبير الصحة [fī tadbīr aṣ-ṣiḥḥati, On the Regimen of Health], Leiden: Brill, published 2019, →ISBN, page 61:
      وكلّ ما يعمل من اللبن أو يخلط به رديء جدّا أعني الرائب والخلاط والشيراز وكذلك ما طبخ من اللبن وما يطبخ به كلّ ذلك رديء الغذاء.
      All that is made from milk or mixed with it is gravely bad, I mean sour milk and milk-mix drinks and wheyless joghurt and likewise any dairy product having undergone a boiling process and any food item cooked therewith, all that is bad nutrition.

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “شيراز”, 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 410b