قتاد

See also: قناد‎

Arabic

قَتَاد – Astragalus onobrychis

Etymology

Regressively assimilated respectively progressively dissimilated in voicedness from dialectal variants قَدَاد‎ (qadād), قَتَات‎ (qatāt), also قَدِيد‎ (qadīd), قَتِيت‎ (qatīt), from قَدَّ‎ (qadda), قَتَّ‎ (qatta, “to snithe into strips, to cut lengthwise”) – the former more known, the latter however reflected in قَتّ‎ (qatt, “lucerne”) and قَات‎ (qāt, “qat”) –, as cutting, slitting is what one does with the milk-vetches, whose profusion of sap was also the motive for the derivation of كَثِيرَاء‎ (kaṯīrāʔ, “tragacanth, gum of milk-vetches”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qa.taːd/

Noun

قَتَاد • (qatād) m (collective, singulative قَتَادَة‎ f (qatāda))

  1. milk-vetch (Astragalus gen. et spp.)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835), “قتاد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 396
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎ (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 427 to 502
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “قتاد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1000
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