زوقال

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian زغال (zoğâl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zuː.qaːl/

Noun

زُوقَال • (zūqāl) m

1. (obsolete, uncommon) dogwood, cornel (Cornus gen. et spp.)
   • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎^[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, web 1/139, pages 380 line 8–10:

     ولا نظير لتككهم ومحفوريَّاتهم وقرمزهم وأنماطهم وصبغهم وفاكهة تسمَّى الزُّوقال وقسبويه وسمك يقال له الطِرِّيخ ولهم تين وشاه بلُّوط في غاية الجودة.

     There is nothing resembling their waistbands, their streaked rugs, their crimson, their druggets, their dyes, and the fruit called cornel, and their dentexes, and their fish called pearl mullet. And they have figs and chestnuts of finest quality.

Declension

Declension of noun زُوقَال (zūqāl)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	زُوقَال zūqāl	الزُّوقَال az-zūqāl	زُوقَال zūqāl
Nominative	زُوقَالٌ zūqālun	الزُّوقَالُ az-zūqālu	زُوقَالُ zūqālu
Accusative	زُوقَالًا zūqālan	الزُّوقَالَ az-zūqāla	زُوقَالَ zūqāla
Genitive	زُوقَالٍ zūqālin	الزُّوقَالِ az-zūqāli	زُوقَالِ zūqāli

References

• Abu Rejxan Beruni (1973) Izbrannyje proizvedenija. Tom 4. Farmakognozija v medicine (Kitab as-Sajdana fi-tibb) [Selected Works. Volume 4. Book on the Pharmacopoeia of Medicine] (in Russian), research, translation, notes and indexes by U. I. Karimov, Tashkent: Uzbek SSR Academy Press, pages 508–509 Nr. 510