قبج

From Persian کبک (kabk).

• IPA^(key): /qabd͡ʒ/, /qa.bad͡ʒ/

قَبْج or قَبَج • (qabj or qabaj) m (collective, singulative قَبْجَة f (qabja) or قَبَجَة (qabaja), plural قِبَاج (qibāj))

1. chukar, Alectoris chukar

   Synonym: حَجَل رُومِيّ (ḥajal rūmiyy)

   • a. 945, مروان بن جناح , edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 825 (fol. 70r,14–v,1), page 963:

     القبج بالفارسية هو الحجل عنه ومن كتاب أهرن وفي اللغة: القبج ذكر الحجل، قال الصنوبري
     يٰأخِي قُمْ فَقَدْ شَجَجْنا لَكَ الرَّاحَ … فَخُذْها مَشْجُوجَةً أيّ شَجّ
     قَطَعَ المَاءُ جِسْمَها قِطَعًا لَمْ … تَغْذِ أَمْثالَها مَناقِيرُ قَبْج

     Al-qabj is Persian for partridge ibidem . From ʾAhrun’s book and the lexicographers: It is the male partridge. Aṣ-Ṣanawbarīy said:
     O brother, get up! We have mixed wine for you.
     Take it in a mixed state in whichever fashion!
     The water has stripped down its substance into bits,
     of size smaller than chukar beaks eat.

2. Himalayan snowcock, Tetraogallus himalayensis
   • a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات ‎, Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, published 1849, page 422:

• “قبج” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قبج”, 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 388b
• Jacob, Georg (1892) Studien in arabischen Geographen‎ (in German), volume 3, Berlin: Meyer & Müller, pages 112–113