Arabic edit

Root
ص ف ر (ṣ-f-r)

Noun edit

صَفَار or صُفَار (ṣafār or ṣufārm

  1. yellow pigment, yellow dye, yellow coloring
  2. jaundice
  3. yolk

Declension edit

Noun edit

صَفَّار (ṣaffārm

  1. Schimpera arabica (the leaves of it serve for salad greens)

Declension edit

References edit

  • صفار” in Almaany
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “صفار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1698
  • Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 57, 71, 114, 154, 197, 208
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “صفار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 604
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “صفار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 717