خروب

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • خُرْنُوب‎ (ḵurnūb)

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic חַרּוּבָא‎ / ܚܲܪܘܼܒ݂ܵܐ‎ (ḥarrūḇā, “carob”), from Akkadian 𒄩𒊒𒉿 (/ḫarūbu/, “carob”).

Noun

خَرُّوب • (ḵarrūb) m (collective, singulative خَرُّوبَة‎ f (ḵarrūba))

  1. carob (fruit and tree of Ceratonia siliqua L.)

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: ħarrub
  • → Ottoman Turkish: خروب‎ (harup)

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 141
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 393–407
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, page 481
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