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Etymology

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Borrowed from the Middle Persian antecedent of Persian گوارش (guvâriš).

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Noun

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جَوَارِش (jawārišm (plural جَوَارِشَات (jawārišāt))

  1. (obsolete) stomachic
    Synonym: أُصْطُمَخِيقُون (ʔuṣṭumaḵīqūn)
    • 850–861, علي بن سهل ربن الطبري [ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī], edited by Oliver Kahl, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī’s Health Regimen or “Book of the Pearl” كتاب اللؤلؤة (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 115), Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →ISBN, §13, page 48:
      وما يعين على الشهوة للطعام النظر إلى ألوانه ووصفها وشم أراييحها والنظر إلى من يجيد أكلها واستعمال المشى والركوب وأنواع الضمور قبل الأكل ودخول الحمام والاستياك وأخذ الهليلج المربى وجوارش من الجوارشات.
      What promotes an appetite for food is looking at its different shades and [hearing] their descriptions, smelling their fragrances; watching somebody who eats heartily; walking, riding, and (other) kinds of exercise before eating; going to the bathhouse; toothcare; and taking (some) preserved myrobalans, or one of the stomachics.

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