قرطم

Arabic
قُرْطُم – Carthamus tinctorius

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܩܽܘܪܛܡܳܐ‎ (qūrṭəmā, “safflower”), from ܩܰܪܛܶܡ‎ (qarṭem, “to cut off gently, to trim”), from the plucking off petals which are used for dyeing.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /qur.tˤum/

Noun

قُرْطُم • (qurṭum) m

  1. distaff thistle (Carthamus gen. et spp.)

Declension
Declension of noun قُرْطُم (qurṭum)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قُرْطُم
qurṭum		 الْقُرْطُم‎
al-qurṭum		 قُرْطُم
qurṭum
Nominative قُرْطُمٌ
qurṭumun		 الْقُرْطُمُ‎
al-qurṭumu		 قُرْطُمُ
qurṭumu
Accusative قُرْطُمًا‎
qurṭuman		 الْقُرْطُمَ‎
al-qurṭuma		 قُرْطُمَ
qurṭuma
Genitive قُرْطُمٍ
qurṭumin		 الْقُرْطُمِ‎
al-qurṭumi		 قُرْطُمِ
qurṭumi

Descendants
  • → Middle Armenian: ղրտում (łrtum)
  • → Medieval Latin: carthamus

References
  • Löw, Immanuel (1922), “Semitische Färberpflanzen”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete‎ (in German), volume 1, pages 111–114

Further reading
  • قرطم‎ on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ar
  • “qrṭm”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
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