إشقيل

Arabic

Alternative forms

• إسْقِيل (ʔisqīl)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla). Perhaps more often rendered by ش (š) in Arabic, otherwise rare in Greek borrowings save for historical laminal /s/ pronunciation in Vulgar Latin or Romance engendering it, because in Classical Syriac in which the word had spread earlier it had ܣ (s) which corresponds in inherited cognates to Proto-Semitic *ś.

Noun

إشْقِيل • (ʔišqīl) m

1. squill (Drimia maritima)

   Synonyms: عُنْصُل (ʕunṣul), بَصَل الفَأْر (baṣal al-faʔr)

Declension

Declension of noun إشْقِيل (ʔišqīl)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إشْقِيل ʔišqīl	الْإشْقِيل al-ʔišqīl	إشْقِيل ʔišqīl
Nominative	إشْقِيلٌ ʔišqīlun	الْإشْقِيلُ al-ʔišqīlu	إشْقِيلُ ʔišqīlu
Accusative	إشْقِيلًا ʔišqīlan	الْإشْقِيلَ al-ʔišqīla	إشْقِيلَ ʔišqīla
Genitive	إشْقِيلٍ ʔišqīlin	الْإشْقِيلِ al-ʔišqīli	إشْقِيلِ ʔišqīli

Descendants

• → Medieval Hebrew: אישקיל (ʾišqī́l)

References

• مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ] (a. 1050) Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, editors, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 35 (fol. 6r,10–13), page 242 say that as the Syriac forms all have Classical Syriac ܣ (s), the form إسْقِيل (ʔisqīl) is “more correct”, which only makes sense if one grants that it was assumed from Syriac by Syriac medicine truchmen.
• Maimonides (1940) Max Meyerhof, editor, Sharḥ asmāʾ al-ʿuqqār : L'explication des noms de drogues : Un glossaire de matière médicale de Maïmonide (in French), Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut française d'archéologie orientale, page 33 Nr. 60