طلح

 طلح on Arabic Wikipedia

From the root ط ل ح (ṭ-l-ḥ) originally meaning “to be successful or contented” as it was a fruit tree that camels overindulge eating; negative associations from the root stem from the negative effects of overeating. Applied in a general way to all flourishing fruit-bearing trees, especially the eating of which is enjoyed.

Often times glossed as Musa (“banana tree”) in its Qurʾānic occurrence, though such an understanding is considered unlikely there; for more see Banana, their existence in Arabia at the eve of Islam^[1] and the possible connection of South Arabian trade routes as a potential source of the fruits' introduction to the African continent.

• IPA^(key): /tˤalħ/

طَلْح • (ṭalḥ) m (collective, singulative طَلْحَة f (ṭalḥa), plural طُلُوح (ṭulūḥ))

1. Vachellia
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 56:28-29:

     فِي سِدْرٍ مَّخْضُودٍ وَطَلْحٍ مَّنْضُودٍ

     fī sidrin maḵḍūdin waṭalḥin manḍūdin

     among buckthorn trees with thorns removed and vachellia trees layered

2. a fruit-bearing tree

• Löw, Immanuel (1934) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 4, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 67
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “طلح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1865-1866