عسقلان

Arabic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
The shallot-sense is presumably a semantic loan from Spanish escaloña, escalonia, or Medieval Latin escalōnia, going back to Classical Latin ascalōnia (cēpa) the Romans called the plant after its abundant occurrence around the Palestinian town nicknamed in Ancient Greek Κρομμύων πολις (Krommúōn polis, literally “Onion City”), also retained in Old French eschaloigne and Italian scalogno – while the myth persists that the cultivar spread to Western Europe only by the first Crusades –, otherwise Arabs had no reason to call the plant precisely like the Romans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕas.qa.laːn/

Proper noun

عَسْقَلَان • (ʿasqalān) f

1. Ashkelon (a city in Israel)

Declension

Declension of noun عَسْقَلَان (ʿasqalān)

Singular	basic singular diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عَسْقَلَان ʿasqalān	الْعَسْقَلَان‎ al-ʿasqalān	عَسْقَلَان ʿasqalān
Nominative	عَسْقَلَانُ ʿasqalānu	الْعَسْقَلَانُ‎ al-ʿasqalānu	عَسْقَلَانُ ʿasqalānu
Accusative	عَسْقَلَانَ ʿasqalāna	الْعَسْقَلَانَ‎ al-ʿasqalāna	عَسْقَلَانَ ʿasqalāna
Genitive	عَسْقَلَانَ ʿasqalāna	الْعَسْقَلَانِ‎ al-ʿasqalāni	عَسْقَلَانِ ʿasqalāni

Noun

عَسْقَلَان • (ʿasqalān) m

1. (al-Andalus) shallot (Allium cepa var. aggregatum)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ibn al-Bayṭār to this entry?)

Declension

Declension of noun عَسْقَلَان (ʿasqalān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عَسْقَلَان ʿasqalān	الْعَسْقَلَان‎ al-ʿasqalān	عَسْقَلَان ʿasqalān
Nominative	عَسْقَلَانٌ ʿasqalānun	الْعَسْقَلَانُ‎ al-ʿasqalānu	عَسْقَلَانُ ʿasqalānu
Accusative	عَسْقَلَانًا‎ ʿasqalānan	الْعَسْقَلَانَ‎ al-ʿasqalāna	عَسْقَلَانَ ʿasqalāna
Genitive	عَسْقَلَانٍ ʿasqalānin	الْعَسْقَلَانِ‎ al-ʿasqalāni	عَسْقَلَانِ ʿasqalāni

Alternative forms

• بَصَل عَسْقَلَانِيّ‎ (baṣal ʿasqalāniyy)