قرفة

Referenced as κάρφεα (kárphea, “cinnamon”) in Herodotus's Histories in connection to Arabia by 440 BC, as well as being attested as a name in Pre-Islamic Arabia; containers with cinnamon residue have been found in the Levant dating to 3,000 years ago.^[1] Related to قِلْف (qilf, “bark, rind”), قِلَافَة (qilāfa, “bark, outer covering”), and Classical Syriac ܩܠܦܬܐ (qlāp̄tā, “bark, peel”); perhaps ultimately an early Semitic borrowing from a Dravidian language such as the precursor of the Tamil கருவா (karuvā, “cinnamon or clove tree”).

قِرْفَة • (qirfa) f

1. cinnamon

   Synonym: دَارْصِينِيّ (dārṣīniyy)

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “قرف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2987
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “قلف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 921

From Arabic قِرْفَة (qirfa).

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قرفة • (ʔirfa) f

1. cinnamon

From Arabic قِرْفَة (qirfa).

• IPA^(key): /ɡir.fa/,

قرفة • (girfa) f

1. cinnamon

From Arabic قِرْفَة (qirfa).

• IPA^(key): /qar.fa/

قرفة • (qarfa) f (usually uncountable)

1. cinnamon

From Arabic قِرْفَة (qirfa).

• IPA^(key): (Urban) /ʔir.fe/
• IPA^(key): (Bedouin) /ɡir.fe/

قرفة • (ʔirfe) f

1. cinnamon