عجور

Arabic

عَجُّور

Etymology

Disputed etymology largely in where it originates and the direction it was borrowed:

• From Middle Persian ʾngwl (angūr, “grape”) or alternatively Middle Persian ʾncyl (anjīr, “fig”); applied then generically to a green produce. Cognates with Persian غوره (ğure, “unripe, green produce; sour grapes”), Persian انگور (angur, “grapes”), Aramaic גורקא (gūraqā, “unripe fruit”), Aramaic גורג (gūrg, “wine made from unripe grapes”), and more distantly Sanskrit अङ्कुर (aṅkura, “shoot, bud, sprout”).
• Perhaps semantically derived from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion); compare its Slavic and Germanic descendants, Russian огуре́ц (oguréc, “cucumber”), German Gurke (“cucumber”); derived from Greek άγουρος (ágouros, “unripe, green, immature, inexperienced”), which disputably derives from Pahlavi, Aramaic, or natively from Ancient Greek ἄωρος (áōros, “immature, green, unripe”, literally “ἀ-+ὥρα, not season or time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕad͡ʒ.d͡ʒuːr/

Noun

عَجُّور • (ʕajjūr) m (collective, singulative عَجُّورَة f (ʕajjūra))

1. Egyptian cucumber, Luffa aegyptiaca

Declension

Declension of noun عَجُّور (ʕajjūr)

Collective	basic collective triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عَجُّور ʕajjūr	الْعَجُّور al-ʕajjūr	عَجُّور ʕajjūr
Nominative	عَجُّورٌ ʕajjūrun	الْعَجُّورُ al-ʕajjūru	عَجُّورُ ʕajjūru
Accusative	عَجُّورًا ʕajjūran	الْعَجُّورَ al-ʕajjūra	عَجُّورَ ʕajjūra
Genitive	عَجُّورٍ ʕajjūrin	الْعَجُّورِ al-ʕajjūri	عَجُّورِ ʕajjūri
Singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عَجُّورَة ʕajjūra	الْعَجُّورَة al-ʕajjūra	عَجُّورَة ʕajjūrat
Nominative	عَجُّورَةٌ ʕajjūratun	الْعَجُّورَةُ al-ʕajjūratu	عَجُّورَةُ ʕajjūratu
Accusative	عَجُّورَةً ʕajjūratan	الْعَجُّورَةَ al-ʕajjūrata	عَجُّورَةَ ʕajjūrata
Genitive	عَجُّورَةٍ ʕajjūratin	الْعَجُّورَةِ al-ʕajjūrati	عَجُّورَةِ ʕajjūrati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عَجُّورَتَيْن ʕajjūratayn	الْعَجُّورَتَيْن al-ʕajjūratayn	عَجُّورَتَيْ ʕajjūratay
Nominative	عَجُّورَتَانِ ʕajjūratāni	الْعَجُّورَتَانِ al-ʕajjūratāni	عَجُّورَتَا ʕajjūratā
Accusative	عَجُّورَتَيْنِ ʕajjūratayni	الْعَجُّورَتَيْنِ al-ʕajjūratayni	عَجُّورَتَيْ ʕajjūratay
Genitive	عَجُّورَتَيْنِ ʕajjūratayni	الْعَجُّورَتَيْنِ al-ʕajjūratayni	عَجُّورَتَيْ ʕajjūratay
Paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عَجُّورَات ʕajjūrāt	الْعَجُّورَات al-ʕajjūrāt	عَجُّورَات ʕajjūrāt
Nominative	عَجُّورَاتٌ ʕajjūrātun	الْعَجُّورَاتُ al-ʕajjūrātu	عَجُّورَاتُ ʕajjūrātu
Accusative	عَجُّورَاتٍ ʕajjūrātin	الْعَجُّورَاتِ al-ʕajjūrāti	عَجُّورَاتِ ʕajjūrāti
Genitive	عَجُّورَاتٍ ʕajjūrātin	الْعَجُّورَاتِ al-ʕajjūrāti	عَجُّورَاتِ ʕajjūrāti

Descendants

• → Northern Kurdish: ecûr
• → Oromo: ujuree

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “عجور”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1959a
• Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎^[2] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 530–535
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “عجور”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 813
• Vollers, Karl (1896) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[4] (in German), volume 50, page 615