کبست

• کبسته‎ (kabaste), کبستو‎ (kabastu)

Unknown. Questionable if attested in the Greater Bundahishn listing a flowering plant [Book Pahlavi needed] (kawastīg). Since Spiegel, dubiously connected to the Avestan name of an infectious disease 𐬐𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬌𐬱‎ (kapastiš), owing to the Persian term’s dictionary gloss “deadly poison”. Reasonably, though this was before it was demonstrated that Armenian is no Iranian language, Lagarde deemed either term suffixed from a stem surfacing as Old Armenian կապեմ (kapem, “to bind”), by reason that the colocynth, like all cucurbitaceous plants, is creeping.

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /kabast/

کبست • (kabast)

1. colocynth

   Synonyms: حنظل‎, خربزه تلخ‎, خربزه ی تلخ‎, تیره کدو‎

• → Arabic: كَبَسْت‎ (kabast)

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• Lagarde, Paul de (1868) Beitraege zur baktrischen Lexikographie (in German), Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, page 56
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• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “کبست”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “کبست”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 791