مران

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Arabic

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مُرَّانFraxinus ornus
 مران on Arabic Wikipedia

Etymology

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Borrowed from Aramaic מוֹרָנָא / *ܡܘܿܪܴܢܳܐ (mōrānā), itself borrowed from Akkadian 𒄑𒈠𒉡𒅊𒅊 (GIŠ.MA.NU.SIG₇.SIG₇ /⁠murrānu⁠/). Equivalent to مُرّ (murr, bitter) +‎ ـَان (-ān) from the root م ر ر (m-r-r), for the fruits of the ash are bitter; though Fleischer related it to the root م ر ن (m-r-n) due to the pliable wood being used for spears, like Old English æsċ (ash), Ancient Greek μελία (melía, ash) and Aramaic מוֹרָנִיתָא / ܡܘܿܪܴܢܺܝܬܴܐ (mōrānīṯā, literally ash-stick) specifically denote a spear as well—the presence of this root in the other Semitic languages is not without doubt.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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مُرَّان (murrānm (collective, singulative مُرَّانَة f (murrāna))

  1. ash (Fraxinus spp.)
    Synonym: دَرْدَار (dardār)

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Classical Syriac: ܡܘܼܪܴܐܢ (murrān)
  • Middle Armenian: մարան (maran)

References

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  • Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 405a
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “م ر ن”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1196
  • Fleischer, Heinrich (1868) “Nachträgliches”, in Chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Targumim und einen großen Theil des rabbinischen Schriftthums[1] (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, pages 569a–b, to Levy, Jacob (1868) Chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Targumim und einen großen Theil des rabbinischen Schriftthums[2] (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, page 71a
  • Jensen, Peter (1892) “Wirkungen des Aleph im Babylonisch-Assyrischen”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete[3] (in German), volume 7, page 217
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden[4] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 286–287
  • Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden[5] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 465
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen[6] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 248–249
  • mwrny2”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • mwrny”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–