جمون

Arabic

Noun

جَمُّون • (jammūn) m

1. Alternative form of بَامْبُوزِيَا (bāmbūziyā, “rose apple”)
   • 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎^[1], volume II, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1854, page 191, line 7:

     ولهم فاكهة يسمّونها الجَمُّون وهي شبه الزيتون ولها نَوًى كنواه إلّا أنها شديدة الحلاوة

     They have a fruit called jamoon resembling the olive and endowed with a pit like the date however of yet sharper sweetness.

   • 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎^[2], volume III, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1855, page 128, line 2:
   • 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎^[3], volume IV, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1858, page 114: