طرخون

Arabic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δρακόντιον (drakóntion, “edder-wort, Dracunculus vulgaris”), from δράκων (drákōn, “dragon, serpent”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

طَرْخُون • (ṭarḵūn) m

tarragon, estragon (Artemisia dracunculus, growing plant and processed form)
- 1025, ابن سينا (Avicenna), القانون في الطب‎ [Canon Medicinae], Rome: Stamperia Orientale Medicea, published 1593, Liber 2, page 182:
- c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام‎ [Yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʾaḥmad ibn al-ʿawwām], José Antonio Banqueri, editor, كتاب الفلاحة‎ [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 30, Art. 14, page 388:
  
  ‏الثمرا هي من أنواع الشبرم وفي كتاب ابن سينا الشبرم ينبت في البساتين له قصب دقيق مستو ذو زغب وورق كورق الطرخون فيما أفدر وله لين‎
  The ṯamrā is a type of spurge and in Avicenna’s book the spurge grows in gardens and has tender and even sticks of down and leaves like the leaves of tarragon but larger and it is supple.

Declension

Declension of noun طَرْخُون (ṭarḵūn)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	طَرْخُون ṭarḵūn	الطَّرْخُون‎ aṭ-ṭarḵūn	طَرْخُون ṭarḵūn
Nominative	طَرْخُونٌ ṭarḵūnun	الطَّرْخُونُ‎ aṭ-ṭarḵūnu	طَرْخُونُ ṭarḵūnu
Accusative	طَرْخُونًا‎ ṭarḵūnan	الطَّرْخُونَ‎ aṭ-ṭarḵūna	طَرْخُونَ ṭarḵūna
Genitive	طَرْخُونٍ ṭarḵūnin	الطَّرْخُونِ‎ aṭ-ṭarḵūni	طَرْخُونِ ṭarḵūni

References

Freytag, Georg (1835), “طرخون”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 47

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