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في كركOnonis reclinataشبرق

Etymology edit

Middle Persian. Persian سپرک (sparak), اسپرک (isparak), اسفرک (isfarak), پشترغ (pašturağ)، پشترک (pasturak), بشترغ (bašturağ), بشترق (bašturaq), پشتراغ (pašturâğ), پشترق (pašturaq), a vague term denoting various noxious weeds.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʃub.ruq/, /ʃib.ruq/, /ʃib.riq/

Noun edit

شُبْرُق or شِبْرُق or شِبْرِق (šubruq or šibruq or šibriqm (collective, singulative شُبْرُقَة f (šubruqa) or شِبْرُقَة (šibruqa) or شِبْرِقَة (šibriqa))

  1. restharrow (Ononis gen. et spp.)
    • a. 544 if genuine, Imruʔ al-Qays, poetized the line:
      فأتبعتُهم طرْفي وقد حال دونهم ... غواربُ رَمْلٍ ذي ألاءِ وشِبْرِق
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. Convolvulus hystrix
    Synonym: شُبْرُم (šubrum)
  3. Zilla spinosa
    Synonym: شُبْرُم (šubrum)

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Israeli Hebrew: שברק
  • Persian: شبرق (šibriq)

References edit

  • Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht (1888) Kleinere Schriften[1] (in German), volume 2, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, page 569
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “شبرق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 389a
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden[3] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 520