Plants with Arabic Names
Avicennia
القُرْم
Avicennia marina
The grey mangrove that grows in the salt water of the Gulf and the Red Sea carries, in botany books the world over, the name of Ibn Sina (d. 1037): Linnaeus made his Latin name, Avicenna, the name of its genus in 1753.
- Source of the name
- Named after a scholar
- Named after
- Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- Genus
- Avicennia
- Species shown
- Avicennia marina
It is one of the few trees that live in the salt flats of the Arabian coasts, from the Gulf to the Red Sea.
Wadghiri (al-ʿArabiyyāt al-Mughtariba 1/212) dates the French word to the early nineteenth century: a plant named after the philosopher and physician Ibn Sina, whose name the European languages turned into Avicenne.
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Sources
- Wikipedia: Avicennia («The generic name honours Persian physician Avicenna»)
- Wikipedia: Avicennia marina (distribution on the Arabian coasts)
- عبد العلي الودغيري، العربيّات المغتربات ١/٢١٢
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