سداب

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سدب (sedeb, sedep), سدف (sedef)

Etymology

From Persian سداب (sadâb).

Noun

سداب • (sedâb, sedâp)

1. common rue (Ruta graveolens)

Descendants

• Turkish: sedef
• → Bulgarian: седе́ф (sedéf), седефче (sedefče)
• → Macedonian: седеф (sedef), седефче (sedefče)
• → Middle Armenian: սատաֆ (sataf)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: sèdef

  Cyrillic script: сѐдеф

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (stʾp /⁠saẟāb⁠/), Compare Arabic سَذَاب (saḏāb) and Classical Syriac ܣܕܒ (/⁠*səḏāḇ⁠/) borrowed from it.

Noun

سداب • (sadâb, sodâb)

1. (obsolete) harmal (Peganum harmala)
2. common rue (Ruta graveolens)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: سداب (sedâb, sedâp), سدب (sedeb, sedep), سدف (sedef)
  • Turkish: sedef
  • → Bulgarian: седе́ф (sedéf), седефче (sedefče)
  • → Macedonian: седеф (sedef), седефче (sedefče)
  • → Middle Armenian: սատաֆ (sataf)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: sèdef

    Cyrillic script: сѐдеф

• → Middle Armenian: սատապ (satap)

References

• Achundow, Abdul (1892) Commentar zum sogenannten Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae des Abu Mansur Muwaffak-Ben-Ali-el Hirowi (in German), Inaugural-Dissertation, Dorpat: Schnakenburg's Buchdruckerei, page 82
• Achundow, Abdul-Chalig (1893) “Die pharmakologischen Grundsätze (Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae) des Abu Mansur Muwaffaq bin Ali Harawi zum ersten Male nach dem Urtext übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen”, in Historische Studien aus dem Pharmakologischen Institute der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat (in German), volume III, Halle an der Saale: Tausch & Grosse, pages 217, 376
• Flattery, David Stophlet, Schwartz, Martin (1989) Haoma and Harmaline. The Botanical Identity of the Indo-Iranian Sacred Hallucinogen “Soma” and its Legacy in Religion, Language, and Middle Eastern Folklore (Near Eastern Studies; 21), Berkeley · Los Angeles · London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 148 seqq.