قمحة

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Formed as a singulative noun from قَمْح (qamḥ, wheat) +‎ ـَة (-a).

Noun

قَمْحَة (qamḥaf (plural قَمْحَات (qamḥāt))

  1. grain of wheat
  2. grain (weight)
  3. bud
  4. piece of medicine swallowed
Declension

Etymology 2

From قَمَحَ (qamaḥa), اِقْتَمَحَ (iqtamaḥa, to swallow) related to قَمْحَة (qamḥa, a grain; a piece of medicine) owing to the use of the plant in electuaries.

Alternative forms

Noun

قُمْحَة (qumḥaf

  1. (obsolete) sweet flag, Acorus calamus; its stalks; its stalks brayed for perfume
    Synonyms: وَجّ (wajj), ذَرِيرَة (ḏarīra)
    • a. 1050, مروان بن جناح , edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص , Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 856 (fol. 72v,2–3), page 991:
      قُمْحة هي قصب الذريرة منه، قال المؤلّف: في كتاب العين: القُمَّحان الذريرة ويقال الورس.
      Qumḥa: From the same author, it is the stalks of sweet flag. The compilator: In the Book of the Eye: The qummaḥān is the sweet flag and nicknamed wars.
Declension

References

  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قمحة”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 810a
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قمحة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 855b