صراخة

See also: صراحة

Arabic

صَرَّاخَة

Etymology

From the root ص ر خ (ṣ-r-ḵ), so called in Spain because one believed that a cry of this plant on St. John’s Day indicates death in the same year.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤar.raː.xa/

Noun

صَرَّاخَة • (ṣarrāḵa) f

1. (al-Andalus) dragonwort, common dragon (Dracunculus vulgaris)
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 28, Art. 13, page 316:

Declension

Declension of noun صَرَّاخَة (ṣarrāḵa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	صَرَّاخَة ṣarrāḵa	الصَّرَّاخَة aṣ-ṣarrāḵa	صَرَّاخَة ṣarrāḵat
Nominative	صَرَّاخَةٌ ṣarrāḵatun	الصَّرَّاخَةُ aṣ-ṣarrāḵatu	صَرَّاخَةُ ṣarrāḵatu
Accusative	صَرَّاخَةً ṣarrāḵatan	الصَّرَّاخَةَ aṣ-ṣarrāḵata	صَرَّاخَةَ ṣarrāḵata
Genitive	صَرَّاخَةٍ ṣarrāḵatin	الصَّرَّاخَةِ aṣ-ṣarrāḵati	صَرَّاخَةِ ṣarrāḵati

References

• صراخة on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar
• Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 305a
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “صراخة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 827a