قرنبيط

Arabic

قَرْنَبِيط

Alternative forms

• قُنَّبِيط (qunnabīṭ)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κραμβίδιον (krambídion), the diminutive of κράμβη (krámbē). Doublet of كُرُنْب (kurunb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qar.na.biːtˤ/

Noun

قَرْنَبِيط • (qarnabīṭ) m

1. cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis)
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 16, page 684:

     وأما اختزان القنبيط والرازيانج الغض لمن أحب أن يأكلها في غير أيامها فيخزن ذلك في الخل على ما أصف يؤخذ قلوب القنبيط وينصف ويغمر في الخل ويجعل فيه شيء من الفوذنج ويطين رأس الإناء ويرفع وأما فضبان الرازيانج الغض فينشر ويعمل بها مثل ذلك.

     In what concerns the preservation of cauliflower and fresh fennel, for him who likes to eat them off-season, these get preserved in vinegar in the following fashion: One takes the hearts of the cauliflower and halves and dunks into the vinegar and puts some pennyroyal into it and daubs the head of the receptacle and lifts it, and for the stalks of the fresh fennel, they are spread and the same is done with them.

Declension

Declension of noun قَرْنَبِيط (qarnabīṭ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَرْنَبِيط qarnabīṭ	الْقَرْنَبِيط al-qarnabīṭ	قَرْنَبِيط qarnabīṭ
Nominative	قَرْنَبِيطٌ qarnabīṭun	الْقَرْنَبِيطُ al-qarnabīṭu	قَرْنَبِيطُ qarnabīṭu
Accusative	قَرْنَبِيطًا qarnabīṭan	الْقَرْنَبِيطَ al-qarnabīṭa	قَرْنَبِيطَ qarnabīṭa
Genitive	قَرْنَبِيطٍ qarnabīṭin	الْقَرْنَبِيطِ al-qarnabīṭi	قَرْنَبِيطِ qarnabīṭi

Descendants

• → Hijazi Arabic: قَرْنَبيط
• → Ottoman Turkish: قرنابیت (karnabit), قنبیط (kunnebit)
  • Turkish: karnabit
  • → Albanian: karnabit
  • → Armenian: կառնապիթ (kaṙnapitʻ)
  • → Bulgarian: карнаби́т (karnabít)
  • → Greek: καρναμπίτι (karnampíti), καρναμπίκι (karnampíki), κουνουπίδι (kounoupídi) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Northern Kurdish: kárnabit
• → Persian: قنبیط (qanbit, qonnabit)

Further reading

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قرنبيط”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[3] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 340
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قرنبيط”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1022

Hijazi Arabic

قَرْنَبيط

Etymology

From Arabic قَرْنَبِيط (qarnabīṭ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡar.na.ˈbiːtˤ/

Noun

قَرْنَبيط • (garnabīṭ) m

1. cauliflower