قرسطون

Arabic

Alternative forms
  • قَلَسْطُون‎ (qalasṭūn) – colloquial Andalusi
  • قَارَسْطُون‎ (qārasṭūn)

Etymology

From Aramaic כרסטיונה‎ (karisṭyōnā), קרצטיונא‎ (qariṣṭyōnā), ܟܪܣܛܝܘܢܐ‎ (kərasṭyōnā), from Ancient Greek χαριστίων (kharistíōn).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /qa.ras.tˤuːn/

Noun

قَرَسْطُون • (qarasṭūn) m

  1. stilyard
    • ante 943, سنان بن ثابت, Mohammed Abattouy, editor, On the Theory of Simple Machines, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin MS 3306‎:
      ‏المحل: لا فرق بينه وبين القرسطون في حكمه‎
      The lever: There is no difference between it and the steelyard.
    Synonyms: قَبَّان‎ (qabbān), قَفَّان‎ (qaffān)

Declension
Declension of noun قَرَسْطُون (qarasṭūn)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قَرَسْطُون
qarasṭūn		 الْقَرَسْطُون‎
al-qarasṭūn		 قَرَسْطُون
qarasṭūn
Nominative قَرَسْطُونٌ
qarasṭūnun		 الْقَرَسْطُونُ‎
al-qarasṭūnu		 قَرَسْطُونُ
qarasṭūnu
Accusative قَرَسْطُونًا‎
qarasṭūnan		 الْقَرَسْطُونَ‎
al-qarasṭūna		 قَرَسْطُونَ
qarasṭūna
Genitive قَرَسْطُونٍ
qarasṭūnin		 الْقَرَسْطُونِ‎
al-qarasṭūni		 قَرَسْطُونِ
qarasṭūni

Descendants
  • → Catalan: calastó, calastró
  • → Medieval Latin: carasto, charasto

References
  • “krsṭywn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “قرسطون”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 327
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 199
  • Krauss, Samuel (1899) Griechische und lateinische Lehnwörter in Talmud, Midrasch und Targum (in German), volume II, Berlin: S. Calvary, page 570a
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