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Etymology

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(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

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

Proper noun

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عَسْقَلَان (ʕasqalānf

  1. Ashkelon (a city in Israel)

Declension

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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

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عَسْقَلَان (ʕasqalānm

  1. (al-Andalus) shallot (Allium cepa var. aggregatum)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ibn al-Bayṭār to this entry?)

Declension

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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

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