طخش

Arabic

زَرْنَب

Etymology

A Romance borrowing, see the map of where the common yew is spread and compare to Portuguese teixo, Galician teixo, Spanish tejo, Aragonese teix, Catalan teix, deriving from Latin taxus (“yew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tˤaxʃ/

Noun

طَخْش • (ṭaḵš) m

1. yew (Taxus baccata)

Declension

Declension of noun طَخْش (ṭaḵš)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	طَخْش ṭaḵš	الطَّخْش aṭ-ṭaḵš	طَخْش ṭaḵš
Nominative	طَخْشٌ ṭaḵšun	الطَّخْشُ aṭ-ṭaḵšu	طَخْشُ ṭaḵšu
Accusative	طَخْشًا ṭaḵšan	الطَّخْشَ aṭ-ṭaḵša	طَخْشَ ṭaḵša
Genitive	طَخْشٍ ṭaḵšin	الطَّخْشِ aṭ-ṭaḵši	طَخْشِ ṭaḵši

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “طخش”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 29
• Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, page 529