عناب

Arabic

عُنَّاب

Etymology

From their likeness to عِنَب (ʕinab, grapes) in the native root ع ن ب (ʕ-n-b).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕun.naːb/

Noun

عُنَّاب (ʕunnāb) m (collective, singulative عُنَّابَة f (ʕunnāba))

  1. jujube (Ziziphus jujuba)
    • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام‎ [Yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʾaḥmad ibn al-ʿawwām], José Antonio Banqueri, editor, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 30, Art. 8, page 429:
      وفيه ينضج الخوخ والرمان والسفرجل ويسود بعض حب الريتون ويطيب حب شجر المشتهى والبلوط والقسطل ويفصل الجوز وهو أفضل وقت جمعه وفيه يجمع الصنوبر والعناب ويظهر فيه الأسفاراج وفيه يبدئ بالحرث والزراعة بعد نزول الغيث وذلك في بعض البلاد وفيه تجمع الكراويا والكمون واللوبياء والدرونج وبزور الأحباق والكزبر والأرز وتقلع الحناء.
      In this ripen the peach, the pomegranate, and the quince, and some olives become black, and the common whitebeam and the oak and the chestnut become good, and the walnuts open, and it is the best time to gather them, and in it pines and jujubes are harvested, and in it asparagus appears, and one begins to till and sow after the rain in some regions, and one collects caraway and jeera and green beans and leopard’s bane and basil seeds and coriander and rice and pulls the henna.

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: ՙուննաբ (ʿunnab) (Diyarbakir)
  • Azerbaijani: innab
    • Udi: инаб (inab)
  • Georgian: უნაბი (unabi), ურნაბი (urnabi), ორნაბი (ornabi)
  • Middle Armenian: յունապ (yunap), յուննապ (yunnap), ունապ (unap)
  • Ottoman Turkish: عناب (ʿunnab)
    • Turkish: hünnap
    • Armenian: հո̈ւննաբ (hünnab) (Constantinople)
  • Persian: عناب ('anâb)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُنَّاب (ʕunnāb, jujube).

Noun

عناب (ʿunnab)

  1. jujube, the sweet and edible fruits of several trees in the genus Zizyphus
    Synonym: ایگده (iğde)

Derived terms

  • عناب آغاجی (ʿunnab ağacı, jujube tree)
  • عنابیه (ʿunnabıye, Rhamnaceae)
  • عنابی (ʿunnabı, pertaining to the jujube)

Descendants

  • Turkish: hünnap
  • Armenian: հո̈ւննաբ (hünnab) (Constantinople)

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُنَّاب (ʕunnāb).

Noun

عناب ('anâb)

  1. jujube
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