Cypriot Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic جَوْز (jawz).

Noun edit

jawz m (collective, singulative jawze f)

  1. open pod of the cotton plant

References edit

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 190