حرمل

Arabic

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܐܪܡܠܐ (ˀarmalā, “harmal; Syrian rue”), from Ancient Greek ἁρμαλά (harmalá), a loanword of uncertain etymology linked to Akkadian 𒌑𒀀𒈾𒈨𒊒 (anamiru, “medical and ritual herb”); cognate with Hebrew אַלְמָן (ʾalmān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħar.mal/

Noun

حَرْمَل • (ḥarmal) m

1. harmal (Peganum, especially Peganum harmala)
2. (eastern Saudi Arabia, where the other meaning is unused) Rhazya stricta

Declension

Declension of noun حَرْمَل (ḥarmal)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَرْمَل ḥarmal	الْحَرْمَل al-ḥarmal	حَرْمَل ḥarmal
Nominative	حَرْمَلٌ ḥarmalun	الْحَرْمَلُ al-ḥarmalu	حَرْمَلُ ḥarmalu
Accusative	حَرْمَلًا ḥarmalan	الْحَرْمَلَ al-ḥarmala	حَرْمَلَ ḥarmala
Genitive	حَرْمَلٍ ḥarmalin	الْحَرْمَلِ al-ḥarmali	حَرْمَلِ ḥarmali

Derived terms

• الْحَرْمَلِيَّة (al-ḥarmaliyya, “a settlement about 80 km south of the الأَحْسَاء (al-ʔaḥsāʔ) oasis”)

Descendants

• English: harmal
• ⇒ English: harmine, harmaline, harmalol, Peganum harmala

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “حرمل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 372
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[2] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 507–510
• Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 99, 130, 141, 195, 237, 272, 356, 357
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “حرمل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 250