زرشک

Related to Northern Kurdish zerêşk, zirêşk, zirîşk, Gilaki [script needed] (zərəšk); Persian زریک‎ (zerik), زرک‎ (zerek), زرنگ‎ (zarang), زراج‎ (zarâj), زراک‎ (zarâk); Yidgha [script needed] (azīto); Khotanese ysālva; all meaning "barberry" and ultimately deriving from the word for "yellow": compare Persian زر‎ (zar, “gold”).

زرشک • (zerešk)

1. barberry

   ‏زرشک پلو‎ ― zerešk polow ― barberry rice

   ‏زرشک پلو با مرغ‎ ― zerešk polow bâ morğ ― barberry rice with chicken

   Synonyms: انبر باریس‎ (anbar bâris), انبرباریس‎ (anbarbâris), امبر باریس‎ (ambar bâris), امبرباریس‎ (ambarbâris), زارج‎ (zârej), زارچ‎ (zâreč)

• زرشکی‎ (zereški)

• → Arabic: زِرِشْك‎ (zirišk)
• → Azerbaijani: zirişk
• → Classical Syriac: ܙܪܫܩ‎ (zršq), ܣܪܫܩ‎ (sršq)
• → Georgian: ზირიშკი (zirišḳi), ზერეშკი (zerešḳi), ზერეშქი (zereški), ზერენგი (zerengi) (Fereydan)
• → Middle Armenian: զրիշկ (zrišk)
  • Armenian: զրիշկ (zrišk), զիրիշք (ziriškʿ)
• → Ottoman Turkish: زرشك‎ (zirişk)
• → Punjabi: زِرِشْک‎ (ziriśk)
• → Urdu: زرشک‎ (ziriśk)

زرشک • (zerešk)

1. (slang) nonsense!

• Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 526
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 350a
• Bläsing, Uwe (2019), “Die armenischen Pflanzennamen in Peter Simon Pallas’ Flora Rossica. Eine Studie zu Etymologie und sprachlicher Interaktion”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15) (in German), Leuven: Peeters, pages 31–32
• Karimi, Hadi (1995) Plants of Iran : Scientific, English and Persian names, Tehran: Iran University Press, § 456f
• Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) Iranian Pamir Languages (Yidgha-Munji, Sanglechi-Ishkashmi and Wakhi) (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume II, Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., page 196a

Borrowed from Persian زرشک‎.

زِرِشْک • (ziriśk) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਜ਼ਿਰਿਮ਼ਕ)

1. barberry

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “زِرِشک‎”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Persian زرشک‎

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /zɪ.ɾɪʃk/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /zɪ.ɾɪʃk/

زِرِشْک • (ziriśk) m (Hindi spelling ज़िरिश्क)

1. barberry

• “زرشک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “زرشک”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.