قسطل

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Arabic

قَسْطَلَانِ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aramaic קַסְטֵל (qasṭēl), from Latin castellum (fortress; reservoir).

Noun

قَسْطَل (qasṭalm (plural قَسَاطِل (qasāṭil))

  1. water conduit, water pipeline
Declension
قَسْطَل

Etymology 2

Noun

قَسْطَل (qasṭalm

  1. alternative form of كَسْتَنَاء (kastanāʔ, chestnut)
Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قسطل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 344–345
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 25
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قسطل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 443
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قسطل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1024

Moroccan Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic قَسْطَل (qasṭal), a variant of كَسْتَنَاء (kastanāʔ), from Ancient Greek κάστανα (kástana).

Pronunciation

Noun

قسطل (qasṭalm (collective, singulative قسطلة f (qasṭla), paucal قسطلات (qasṭlāt))

  1. chestnuts