عرمض

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Arabic

Etymology

Root
ر م ض (r m ḍ)
2 terms

Probably color or defect adjective from رَمِضَ (ramiḍa, to become heated by the sun).

Pronunciation

Noun

عَرْمَض (ʕarmaḍm (obsolete)

  1. common duckweed (Lemna minor)
    • a. 622, لَبيد بن ربيعة , إنَّ تَقْوَى رَبِّنَا خَيرُ نَفَلْ:
      فَوَرَدنا قَبلَ فُرّاطِ القَطا
      إِنَّ مِن وِردِيَ تَغليسَ النَهَل
      طامِيَ العَرمَضِ لا عَهدَ لَهُ
      بِأَنيسٍ بَعدَ حَولٍ قَد كَمَل
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • a. 1050, مروان بن جناح , edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 698 (fol. 60r,15–v,3), page 848:
      العرمض هو حبّ الغار عن ابن إسحاق، قال مسيح: العرمض الرند، وقال أبو حنيفة: رمض شجر من السدر صغار (٦٠ ب) لا يكبر ولا يسمو وشوكه مثل مناقيرالطير، وفي كتاب العين: العرمض الطحلب والعرمض من شجر العضاه
      Duckweed is laurelseed according to Ibn Isḥāq, whereas Masīh said it is laurel, and Abū Ḥanīfa it is a small buckthorn tree but not growing large or tall, its thorns like beard beaks, and in the Book of the Source it is said: It is an alga and one of the briars.

Declension

Verb

عَرْمَضَ (ʕarmaḍa) Iq (non-past يُعَرْمِضُ (yuʕarmiḍu), verbal noun عَرْمَضَة (ʕarmaḍa))

  1. to be covered with duckweed

Conjugation

References

  • 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 860
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “عرمض”, 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 146b