قرنبيط

Arabic

قَرْنَبِيط

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κραμβίδιον (krambídion), the diminutive of κράμβη (krámbē).[1][2][3][4] Doublet of كُرُنْب (kurunb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qar.na.biːtˤ/

Noun

قَرْنَبِيط (qarnabīṭ) m

  1. cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis)
    • وأما اختزان القنبيط والرازيانج الغض لمن أحب أن يأكلها في غير أيامها فيخزن ذلك في الخل على ما أصف يؤخذ قلوب القنبيط وينصف ويغمر في الخل ويجعل فيه شيء من الفوذنج ويطين رأس الإناء ويرفع وأما فضبان الرازيانج الغض فينشر ويعمل بها مثل ذلك.
      In what concerns the preservation of cauliflower and fresh fennel, for him who likes to eat them off-season, these get preserved in vinegar in the following fashion: One takes the hearts of the cauliflower and halves and dunks into the vinegar and puts some pennyroyal into it and daubs the head of the receptable and lifts it, and for the stalks of the fresh fennel, they are spread and the same is done with them.

Declension

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: قرنابیت (karnabit), قنبیط (kunnebit)
    • Turkish: karnabit
    • Albanian: karnabit
    • Armenian: կառնապիթ (kaṙnapitʿ)
    • Bulgarian: карнаби́т (karnabít)
    • Greek: καρναμπίτι (karnampíti), καρναμπίκι (karnampíki), κουνουπίδι (kounoupídi) (see there for further descendants)
    • Kurdish: kárnabit[5]
  • Persian: قنبیط (qambit, qunnabit)

References

  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), կաղամբ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 493a
  2. Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 238b
  3. Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1979), карнабит”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume II, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, pages 250–251
  4. Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, page 443a
  5. Stachowski, Stanisław (2004), “Türkische Lehnwörter im kurdischen Wörterbuch von P. Maurizio Garzoni (1787)”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia (in German), volume 9, page 150 of 143–158

Further reading

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), قرنبيط”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 340
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), قرنبيط”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1022

Hijazi Arabic

قَرْنَبيط

Etymology

From Arabic قَرْنَبِيط (qarnabīṭ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡarnaˈbiːtˤ/

Noun

قَرْنَبيط (garnabīṭ) m pl

  1. cauliflower
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