جورجيا

• جِيُورْجِيَا‎ (jiyorjiyā)

Imitating a European language, compare English Georgia.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒor.d͡ʒi.jaː/

جُورْجِيَا • (jorjiyā) f

1. Georgia (A country in the South Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea.)
2. Georgia (A state of the United States.)

• جُورْجِيّ‎ (jorjiyy)

• كُرْج‎ (kurj)
• جَرْجَان‎ (jarjān)

From Persian گور گیاه‎ (gôr-giyâh, “lemongrass (Cymbopogon); broomsedge (Andropogon)”, literally “ass hay”). Also known in Classical Syriac ܓܘܪܓܝܗ‎.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuːr.d͡ʒi.jaː/

جُورْجِيَا • (jūrjiyā) m (obsolete)

1. lemongrass, Cymbopogon
   • a. 870, علي بن سهل ربّن الطبري (ʿalī ibn Sahl Rabbān aṭ-Ṭabarīy), فردوس الحكمة في الطب [firdaws al-ḥikma fī aṭ-ṭibb] [Paradise of Wisdom in Medicine]‎:

     ‏الإذخر وهو الجورجيا‎

     Lemongrass, which is jūrjiyā

   • a. 1050, مروان بن جناح‎ [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, editors, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, (fol. 18r,1–2), page 370:

     ‏من كنّاش ابن إسحاق:
     الجورجيا هو فقّاح الإذخر.‎‎

     From Kunnǎš by Ibn Isḥāq:
     Jūrjiyā is the flower of lemongrass.

   Synonym: إِذْخِر‎ (ʔiḏḵir)

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “جورجيا”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN