قتاد

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Arabic

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قَتَادAstragalus onobrychis
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Etymology

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Regressively assimilated respectively progressively dissimilated in voicedness from dialectal variants قَدَاد (qadād), قَتَات (qatāt), also قَدِيد (qadīd), قَتِيت (qatīt), from قَدَّ (qadda), قَتَّ (qatta, to snithe into strips, to cut lengthwise) – the former more known, the latter however reflected in قَتّ (qatt, lucerne) and قَات (qāt, qat) –, as cutting, slitting is what one does with the milk-vetches, whose profusion of sap was also the motive for the derivation of كَثِيرَاء (kaṯīrāʔ, tragacanth, gum of milk-vetches).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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قَتَاد (qatādm (collective, singulative قَتَادَة f (qatāda))

  1. milkvetch (Astragalus gen. et spp.)

Declension

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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قتاد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 396
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 427 to 502
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قتاد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1000