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/
  • (Hijazi) IPA^(key): /ʕas.ɡa.laːn/

Proper noun

عَسْقَلَان • (ʕasqalān) f

1. Ashkelon (a city in Israel)

Declension

Declension of noun عَسْقَلَان (ʕasqalān)

Singular	basic singular diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عَسْقَلَان ʕasqalān	الْعَسْقَلَان al-ʕasqalān	عَسْقَلَان ʕasqalān
Nominative	عَسْقَلَانُ ʕasqalānu	الْعَسْقَلَانُ al-ʕasqalānu	عَسْقَلَانُ ʕasqalānu
Accusative	عَسْقَلَانَ ʕasqalāna	الْعَسْقَلَانَ al-ʕasqalāna	عَسْقَلَانَ ʕasqalāna
Genitive	عَسْقَلَانَ ʕasqalāna	الْعَسْقَلَانِ al-ʕasqalāni	عَسْقَلَانِ ʕasqalāni

Noun

عَسْقَلَان • (ʕasqalān) 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 (ʕasqalān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عَسْقَلَان ʕasqalān	الْعَسْقَلَان al-ʕasqalān	عَسْقَلَان ʕasqalān
Nominative	عَسْقَلَانٌ ʕasqalānun	الْعَسْقَلَانُ al-ʕasqalānu	عَسْقَلَانُ ʕasqalānu
Accusative	عَسْقَلَانًا ʕasqalānan	الْعَسْقَلَانَ al-ʕasqalāna	عَسْقَلَانَ ʕasqalāna
Genitive	عَسْقَلَانٍ ʕasqalānin	الْعَسْقَلَانِ al-ʕasqalāni	عَسْقَلَانِ ʕasqalāni

Alternative forms

• بَصَل عَسْقَلَانِيّ (baṣal ʕasqalāniyy)