Plants with Arabic Names
qronfol
القَرَنْفُل
Syzygium aromaticum
An aromatic tree from India. Its scientific name, Syzygium aromaticum, is Latin, not Arabic; but its Arabic name, qaranful, lives on in Maltese as qronfol, and entered French botanical books as carumfel.
- Source of the name
- From an Arabic word
- From the Arabic word
- qaranful
- The word in European languages
- qronfol
- Genus
- Syzygium
- Species shown
- Syzygium aromaticum
«القَرَنْفُلُ والقَرَنْفُولُ شجرٌ هنديٌّ ليس من نباتِ أرضِ العرب، وذكره امرؤ القيس في شعره فقال: نسيمَ الصَّبا جاءت بِرَيّا القَرَنْفُلِ.»
Wadghiri (1/363) finds carumfel and charumfel in French at the start of the 19th century, and carunsel in Diderot's Encyclopédie in 1757; other forms are qorenfel and qoronfl, "the name of an aromatic plant".
Wiktionary: Maltese qronfol is inherited from Arabic qaranful and means both clove and carnation (Dianthus); compare Sicilian garòfalu.
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Sources
- ابن منظور، لسان العرب ١١/٥٥٦
- عبد العلي الودغيري، العربيّات المغتربات ١/٣٦٣
- Wiktionary: qronfol
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