Arabic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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An early Berber borrowing; see Jacques-Meunié 1951 for Berber forms and ritual uses.

Noun

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تَاكُوت or تَاكَوْت (tākūt or tākawtm (Algeria, Morocco, al-Andalus)

  1. spurge
    Synonym: فَرْبِيُون (farbiyūn)
  2. gall of the tamarisk
    Synonym: حَبّ الأَثْل (ḥabb al-ʔaṯl)
    Coordinate terms: كَزْمَازَج (kazmāzaj), عَفْص (ʕafṣ)

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Descendants

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  • French: tacahout

Further reading

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  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “تاكوت”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 139b
  • Jacques-Meunié, Djinn (1951) “Sur le cult des saints et les fêtes rituelles dans le Moyen Dra et la région de Tazarine”, in Hespéris. Archives berbères et bulletin de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Marocaines[2] (in French), volume 38, Paris: Librairie Larose, pages 368 from 365–380
  • Meouak, Mohamed (2015) La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval: Textes, contextes, analyses (Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib; 8)‎[3] (in French), Leiden: Brill, published 2015, →ISBN, pages 171–172
  • “Tamarisk gall”, in CAMEO: Conservation & Art Materials Encyclopedia Online[4], 2013