زعرور

Arabic

زعرور

Alternative forms

  • عُزْرُور (ʕuzrūr), عَزْرُور (ʕazrūr)

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic, there with forms as עוזררא, אנזעררתא, זרדתא, זרתא, זודתא, זירדתא, אוזר, חוזרר, חזרור, חיזרר, ܥܙܪܪܬܐ. Perhaps from an Egyptian expression like Sahidic Coptic ⲥⲟⲩⲣⲉ ⲁⲣⲟⲟⲩⲉ (soure arooue, literally needle-thistle), which would explain the distribution of similar Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon, medlar), Moroccan Arabic مزاح (mzāḥ, loquats, medlars), Proto-Kartvelian *sxmarṭl- (medlar), Middle Armenian զկեռ (zkeṙ, medlar), Persian ازگیل (azgil, medlar), Georgian ასკილი (asḳili, dog rose, briar). However as the speech is of pomefruits, the form חֲזְרוּרָא (ḥăzrūrā) may be most original and reduplicated from the known term ܚܙܘܪܐ / חֲזוּרָא (ḥăzzūrā, apple).

Noun

زُعْرُور or زَعْرُور (zuʕrūr or zaʕrūr) m (collective, singulative زُعْرُورَة f (zuʕrūra) or زَعْرُورَة (zaʕrūra))

  1. thornapple, medlar (Crataegus gen. et spp., fruit and tree)

Declension

Descendants

  • Catalan: atzerolo, atzerola
    • Catalan: atzeroler, atzerolera
  • Galician: azarolo
  • Latin: azarolus
  • Spanish: acerolo, acerola
    • Spanish: azarolla
    • Spanish: cerollo (possibly)
    • French: azerole
      • Dutch: azarole
      • English: azarole
      • German: Azarole
      • Russian: азаро́ль (azarólʹ)
    • Bulgarian: ацеро́ла (aceróla)
    • French: acérola
    • German: Acerola
    • Greek: ασερόλα (aseróla)
    • Italian: acerola
    • Polish: acerola
    • Russian: ацеро́ла (aceróla)
    • Serbo-Croatian: acerola
    • Slovene: acerola
    • Ukrainian: ацеро́ла (aceróla)
  • Portuguese: acerolo, acerola

References

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