حارود

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Syriac *ܚܪܘܕܐ (ḥārūḏā, literally “gnawer”). Compare Hebrew חֹלֶד (ḥṓleḏ, “weasel”), Classical Syriac ܚܘܠܕܐ (ḥuldā, “mole”), ܚܠܘܕܐ (ḥallūḏā, ḥālūḏā), ܚܠܕܘܕܐ (ḥalḏūḏā, ḥalləḏūḏā, “field mouse or jerboa”), Old Armenian խլուրդ (xlurd, “mole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħaː.ruːd/

Noun

حَارُود • (ḥārūd) m

1. (obsolete) beaver
   • a. 1248, ابن البيطار [Ibn al-Bayṭār], الجامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية [De simplicibus medicinis opus magnum], s. v. حارود:

     حارود: هو اسم الحيوان الذي خصاه الجندبادستر وقد ذكرته في الجيم.

     ḥārūd: This is the name of the animal of which the testicles give جُنْدُبَادَسْتَر (jundubādastar, “castoreum”), mentioned under the letter j.

Declension

Declension of noun حَارُود (ḥārūd)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَارُود ḥārūd	الْحَارُود al-ḥārūd	حَارُود ḥārūd
Nominative	حَارُودٌ ḥārūdun	الْحَارُودُ al-ḥārūdu	حَارُودُ ḥārūdu
Accusative	حَارُودًا ḥārūdan	الْحَارُودَ al-ḥārūda	حَارُودَ ḥārūda
Genitive	حَارُودٍ ḥārūdin	الْحَارُودِ al-ḥārūdi	حَارُودِ ḥārūdi

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 326
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “حارود”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 239a