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Arabic
Alternative forms
Etymology
A metathesized borrowing from Aramaic, since, while in Hebrew, in which the standard term for the caper is צָלָף (ṣālā́p̄), the root is unused, the Aramaic root צ־ל־ף / ܨ-ܠ-ܦ (ṣ-l-p) forms meanings related to splittings and cracks, which refers to the bursting ripening caperberry; though the pertinent noun meaning a caper is only scarcely attested in Aramaic as נִצְפָא (niṣp̄ā) and ܢܹܝܨܦܵܐ (nēṣp̄ā) – a distortion of the consonants least common for this etymon in Arabic – because this native Aramaic term had been ousted by the كَبَر (kabar) type word for the caper. The Arabic شَفَلَّح (šafallaḥ, “capper”) can also plausibly be derived from a root for splittings and cracks.
Pronunciation
Noun
لَصَف • (laṣaf) m
- caper (Capparis gen. and especially Capparis spinosa, as well as the edible buds from it)
- Synonyms: كَبَر (kabar), شَفَلَّح (šafallaḥ), عِتْر (ʕitr)
Declension
Declension of noun لَصَف (laṣaf)
| Singular
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basic singular triptote
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| Indefinite
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Definite
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Construct
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| Informal
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لَصَف
laṣaf
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اللَّصَف
al-laṣaf
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لَصَف
laṣaf
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| Nominative
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لَصَفٌ
laṣafun
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اللَّصَفُ
al-laṣafu
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لَصَفُ
laṣafu
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| Accusative
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لَصَفًا
laṣafan
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اللَّصَفَ
al-laṣafa
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لَصَفَ
laṣafa
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| Genitive
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لَصَفٍ
laṣafin
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اللَّصَفِ
al-laṣafi
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لَصَفِ
laṣafi
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References
- “ṣlp”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1151, knows also لَصِيف (laṣīf, “artichoke thistle (Cynara cardunculus), Cynara baetica, common golden thistle (Scolymus hispanicus)”) and derives from ص ف ف (ṣ-f-f) without giving a reason or what would be exactly in rows.
- Freytag, Georg (1837) “لصف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 104
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “لصف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 3, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 993
- Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 322–331
- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 262–265