كهنايا
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كَهْنايا – Paeonia officinalis
Arabic
Alternative forms
- كَهْيَانَا (kahyānā), of wider distribution but taṣḥīf, for it mimics a common borrowed ending in عَجَمِيّ (ʕajamiyy, “foreign, Persian”) words as in رازیانه (rāziyānā), بادیانه (bādiyāna), hence in Persian کهیانه (kahyāna) beside کهیانا (kahyānā)
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܥܷܣܒܳܐ ܟܳܗܢܳܝܳܐ (ʕesbā kāhnāyā, “peony”, literally “priestly grass”).
Pronunciation
Noun
كَهْنَايَا • (kahnāyā) f
- (obsolete) peony (Paeonia gen. et spp.)
- Synonyms: فَاوَانِيَا (fāwāniyā), عُود الصَّلِيب (ʕūd aṣ-ṣalīb), (al-Andalus) وَرْد الْحَمِير (ward al-ḥamīr)
Declension
Declension of noun كَهْنَايَا (kahnāyā)
| Singular | singular invariable | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
الْكَهْنَايَا al-kahnāyā |
كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
| Nominative | كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
الْكَهْنَايَا al-kahnāyā |
كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
| Accusative | كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
الْكَهْنَايَا al-kahnāyā |
كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
| Genitive | كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
الْكَهْنَايَا al-kahnāyā |
كَهْنَايَا kahnāyā |
Descendants
- → Classical Persian: کهنایا (kahnāyā)
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 1125, still incorrect
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “كهيانا”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 496a
- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 366
- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 124
- Ullmann, Manfred (1959–1970) Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache. Band I (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 579b