Chinese edit

bean; sacrificial vessel
trad. (豆蔻/荳蔻) /
simp. (豆蔻)
alternative forms 豆寇
 
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Etymology edit

Perhaps a variant of Tang-dynasty 多骨 (MC ta kwot), referring to cardamom imported from the Kakkola (伽古羅) country on the western coast of the Malaya Peninsula, which the Chinese from the eighth century thought produced both the nutmegs and the round cardamom (Amomum compactum), the latter possibly imported from Java (Donkin, 2003).

Compare Sanskrit तक्कोल (takkola, a kind of perfume), कक्कोल (kakkola, a kind of plant; a perfume), Pali takkola, Arabic قاقُلَّة (qāqulla, cardamom), Tibetan ཀ་ཀོ་ལ (ka ko la, cardamom), Javanese kapulaga.

Li Shizhen interprets this word as a compound of (“bean(-like)”) + (“many; profusion”).

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (7) (32)
Final () (137) (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter duwH xuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dəuH/ /həuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/dəuH/ /həuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/dəuH/ /xəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dəwH/ /həwH/
Li
Rong
/duH/ /xuH/
Wang
Li
/dəuH/ /xəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱə̯uH/ /xə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dòu hòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dau6 hau3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dòu dòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ duwH › ‹ duwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[N.t]ˁo-s/ /*[d]ˁok-s/
English bean vessel with a neck

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 2466 7500
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doːs/ /*qʰoːs/

Noun edit

豆蔻

  1. cardamom, especially the round cardamom (Amomum compactum)
  2. Alternative name for 肉豆蔻 (ròudòukòu, “nutmeg”).
  3. (figurative) girl's teenage years (especially 13–14 years of age); maidenhood; budding beauty

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