شوفان

Arabic

شُوفَان

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܫܘܦܢܐ (šūp̄ānā, friction), which comes from the verb ܫܳܦ (šāp̄, to file, to scrape) corresponding to the Arabic verb شَافَ (šāfa, to polish), as for the handling of the grain removing the husk by rubbing, grating, polishing is characteristic. There is also Hebrew שיפון (šīp̄ōn, oat; (later) rye), so that formation is apparently Proto-Northwest Semitic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃuː.faːn/

Noun

شُوفَان (šūfān) m

  1. oat

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833), شوفان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 465
  • Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 686–690
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 597
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