Plants with Arabic Names
Abutilon
أبو طِيلون
Abutilon indicum
A plant of the mallow family that Ibn Sina mentions in his Canon, saying it resembles the gourd. Europeans took its Arabic name from the Latin translation of his book, and it became the scientific name of its genus: Abutilon.
- Source of the name
- From an Arabic word
- From the Arabic word
- abū ṭīlūn
- Genus
- Abutilon
- Species shown
- Abutilon indicum
The path between languagesabū ṭīlūn → abutilon (1694) → Abutilon
Wadghiri (1/32) dates the French word to 1694, 'through scientific Latin and especially the translation of Ibn Sina's books'; many French dictionaries say it was taken from Ibn Sina's Canon.
Arabic also writes it būṭīlūn; some have rendered the French word as 'wild marshmallow'.
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Sources
- عبد العلي الودغيري، العربيّات المغتربات ١/٣٢
- CNRTL (TLFi): abutilon
- Wiktionary: Abutilon
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