شيزى

Arabic

Alternative forms

• شِيز (šīz)

Etymology

Apparently a variant of Aramaic שִׁיסְקָא (šīsqā, “jujube”) / שִׁיזְפָא (šīzpā, “jujube”) / ܫܝܼܙܩܵܐ (šīzqā, “jujube”) / ܫܵܐܙܵܐ (šāzā, “jujube”) / *ܫܝܼܙܵܐ (šīzā, “jujube”), hence doublet of زِفْزِف (zifzif, “jujube”) and زَيْزَفُون (zayzafūn, “jujube”), since from the wood of various Ziziphus species crude tools were and are made and their woods turn out to be dark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiː.zaː/

Noun

شِيزَى • (šīzā) f

1. a kind of black wood from which bowls were made, apparently from a Ziziphus species
   • a. 678, الحطيئة, يا لَيتَ كُلَّ خَليلٍ كُنتُ آمُلُهُ (…):

     إِذا يَحارُ هُداةُ الناسِ لَم يَحِرِ
     حَتّى إِذا القَومُ كانوا في رِحالِهِمِ
     كانَ الجَوادُ بِذي الفاثورِ وَالغُمَرِ
     قَد يَملَأُ الجَفنَةَ الشيزى فَيَترِعُها

     When the guides of the people return, they thirst not, until the folks are at their camps, and the horses are at their trays and bowls, then they can fill and implete the wooden stoop.

Declension

Declension of noun شِيزَى (šīzā)

Singular	singular invariable
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	شِيزَى šīzā	الشِّيزَى aš-šīzā	شِيزَى šīzā
Nominative	شِيزَى šīzā	الشِّيزَى aš-šīzā	شِيزَى šīzā
Accusative	شِيزَى šīzā	الشِّيزَى aš-šīzā	شِيزَى šīzā
Genitive	شِيزَى šīzā	الشِّيزَى aš-šīzā	شِيزَى šīzā

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “شيزى”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1631b
• “šyzq)”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “šyzp”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 283–289
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[3] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 138–141