Arabic edit

Root
ع ص ل (ʕ-ṣ-l)
 
عنصلDrimia maritima
 
عنصلDipcadi longifolium
 
عنصلMoraea sisyrinchium
 
عنصلAsphodelus ramosus

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʕun.sˤul/, /ʕun.sˤal/, /ʕan.sˤal/

Noun edit

عُنْصُل or عُنْصَل or عَنْصَل (ʕunṣul or ʕunṣal or ʕanṣalm (plural عَنَاصِل (ʕanāṣil))

  1. squill (Drimia gen. et spp.)
    Synonyms: بَصَل الْفَأْر (baṣal al-faʔr), إشْقِيل (ʔišqīl), بَصَل بَرَّانِيّ (baṣal barrāniyy), بَصَل الْخِنْزِير (baṣal al-ḵinzīr)
    • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 29, Art. 15, pages 385–386:
      والعنصل هو بصل الفأر بذلك لأنه يقتلها وورقه يكون كورق السوسن ولون رهره إلى السواد ويسمى أيضا بصل الخنزير ومنه ما هو قتال خبيث وهو البصلة الواحدة المنفردة في نباتها في الأرض وحدها وفي ط العنصلان بصل الفأر يسمى بالفارسية الإشقيل ويسمى أيضا البصل الحار والبصل البراني والأشكلة.
      The squill is called onion of rats because it kills them and its leaves are like lily leaves and the color of its blossoms tends towards black and it is also called onion of swine and direly deadly, and it is the only onion distinguished by its plant growing alone on the soil, and in the Nabataean Agriculture the squill is onion of rats called in Persian also scilla and it is also called hot onion and wild onion and squilla.
  2. Dipcadi erythraeum and other Dipcadi spp.
  3. barbary nut (Moraea sisyrinchium syn. Gynandriris sisyrinchium)
  4. branched king's-spear (Asphodelus ramosus)

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Maltese: għansar, għansal
  • Armenian: ունսուլ (unsul)

References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “عنصل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 232
  • Fitting, Hans, Littmann, Enno (1911) “Arabische Pflanzennamen aus der Umgegend von Biskra (Algerien)”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[2] (in German), volume 65, page 345
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “عنصل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2065
  • Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 106, 287