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بردي

See also: بردی

Arabic edit

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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Together with Latin buda (“cattail”) declared a Berber borrowing; though a connection to Old Armenian պրտու (prtu, “paper reed”) complicates this; maybe both the Armenian and Arabic have been mediated by Aramaic, considering that the particular meaning of paper reed is distributed right in the historical Aramaic language area, and that Persian بوری (buri), بوریه (buriya), بوریه (buriye, “split reed, marsh reed; reed mat”) is expected from a source word ending -ītā in the emphatic state. Vollers lists the Arabic term under the “secure borrowings from Egyptian”, perhaps thinking about a semantic interference of Coptic ⲃⲱ (bō, “bush”) from Demotic b (/⁠*βoːʔ⁠/, “bush”) from Egyptian bꜣt (/⁠*ˈbaːʀat⁠/, “bush, especially paper reed”); in Corriente’s last dictionary instead ⲡⲓ-ⲣⲱⲧⲓ ~ ⲣⲟϯ (pi-rōti ~ roti, “overgrowths”) is suggested. But forms فَافِير (fāfīr), فَفِير (fafīr), بَابِير (bābīr), بَبِير (babīr) employed for paper reed are secure borrowings from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bur.dijj/, /bar.dijj/

Noun edit

بُرْدِيّ or بَرْدِيّ • (burdiyy or bardiyy) m

  1. cattail (Typha spp.)
  2. (Egypt, Palestine) paper reed (Cyperus papyrus)
    • 977, أبو القاسم بن حوقل, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, كتاب مسالك والممالك [kitāb masālik wa-l-mamālik] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 2)‎[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1873, page 86:
      قد غلب عليها البربير وهو البرديُّ المعمول منه الطوامير ولم أعلم لما بمصر من هذا البربير نظيرًا بوجه الأرض إلّا ما بصقلّيَّة منه وأكثره يفتل حبالًا للمراكب وأقلُّه يعمل للسلطان منه طوامير لا تزيد على قدر كفايته
      [And the swamplands of Palermo] were abounding in papyrus, that is paper reed, from which the scrolls where made. I know none on the face of the earth looking like that of Egypt except that of Sicily. From the bulk one plaits hawsers for the ships, and a rather small share is processed into scrolls for the ruler just as meets his demand.
    • 1179, أبو الخير الإشبيلي [Abū al-Ḵayr al-ʾIšbīliyy], edited by Joaquín Bustamante, Federico Corriente y Mohand Tilmatine, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume I, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 2004, Nr. 973, page 87:
      بَرْدِي: واحدة بردية، ويسمى الأباء والحَفَأ، وهو الخوص عند بعض الرواة، والخُوص أيصا هو القصب مثل البردي، […]
      Paper reed, one is bardīya, is also called abāʾ and ḥafaʾ, it is fronds amongst some pastoralists, and fronds is also a rush like the paper reed.

Declension edit

Declension of noun بُرْدِيّ (burdiyy)‎; بَرْدِيّ (bardiyy)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal بُرْدِي‎; بَرْدِي
burdī‎; bardī 		الْبُرْدِي‎; الْبَرْدِي
al-burdī‎; al-bardī 		بُرْدِي‎; بَرْدِي
burdī‎; bardī
Nominative بُرْدِيٌّ‎; بَرْدِيٌّ
burdiyyun‎; bardiyyun 		الْبُرْدِيُّ‎; الْبَرْدِيُّ
al-burdiyyu‎; al-bardiyyu 		بُرْدِيُّ‎; بَرْدِيُّ
burdiyyu‎; bardiyyu
Accusative بُرْدِيًّا‎; بَرْدِيًّا
burdiyyan‎; bardiyyan 		الْبُرْدِيَّ‎; الْبَرْدِيَّ
al-burdiyya‎; al-bardiyya 		بُرْدِيَّ‎; بَرْدِيَّ
burdiyya‎; bardiyya
Genitive بُرْدِيٍّ‎; بَرْدِيٍّ
burdiyyin‎; bardiyyin 		الْبُرْدِيِّ‎; الْبَرْدِيِّ
al-burdiyyi‎; al-bardiyyi 		بُرْدِيِّ‎; بَرْدِيِّ
burdiyyi‎; bardiyyi

Descendants edit

  • Maltese: bordi
  • → Catalan: albardí
  • → Indonesian: bardi
  • → Medieval Latin: palperium, palpedrum (Italy from 13th century)
  • → Persian: بردی (bardi)
  • → Spanish: albardín

References edit

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