zachun

English

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of Arabic زَقُّوم (zaqqūm).

Noun

An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites aegyptiaca), and sold to pilgrims for a healing ointment.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “zachun”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)