هالوك

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Arabic

Etymology

From the root ه ل ك (h-l-k) for the destruction it havocs to crops the parasitic plant is often named after.

Pronunciation

Noun

هَالُوك (hālūkm (Egypt)

  1. broomrape (Orobanche)
    Synonyms: جَعْفِيل (jaʕfīl), أَسَد الْعَدَس (ʔasad al-ʕadas), خَانِق الْكَرْسَنَّة (ḵāniq al-karsanna)
    • a. 1248, ابن البيطار [Ibn al-Bayṭār], الجامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية [De simplicibus medicinis opus magnum]:
      هالوك: هو عند أهل مصر وإفريقية أيضاً اسم للنوع من الطراثيث وهو الجعفيل وباليونانية أرونفحي ومعناه أسد العدس وقد ذكرته في الألف وهو بالعراق التراب الهالك وهو سم الفأر وأهل المغرب تسميه رهج الفأر وهو الشك وقد ذكر في الشين المعجمة.
      Broomrape: It is amongst man in Egypt and Africa another name for a genus of desert thumb (طُرْثُوث (ṭurṯūṯ)), and it is also جَعْفِيل (jaʕfīl), and in Greek ὀροβάγχη (orobánkhē), and its meaning أَسَد الْعَدَس (ʔasad al-ʕadas) which I have noted under the letter Alif, and it is in Iraq choking earth and it is mice poison and man in the Maghreb calls it mice powder and it is arsenic trioxide (شَكّ (šakk)) I have mentioned under the latter Šīn of the lexicon.
    • 2020 July 11, “باحث مصري يبتكر علاجًا يقضي على الهالوك المدمر لمحصول الفول”, in مرصد المستقبل:
    • 2020 July 27, “مبيد من فطر للقضاء على هالوك الفول”, in SciDevNet:

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