قروعة

Arabic

Root
ق ر ع (q r ʕ)
4 terms

Alternative forms

• قَرِّيعَة (qarrīʕa), قَرَّاعَة (qarrāʕa), قَرْعَة (qarʕa)

Etymology

Given the rarity of the term and unusual variation and usual inter-Semitic origins of the names of infectious diseases—cf. مَوَتَان (mawatān), طَاعُون (ṭāʕūn), بَهَق (bahaq), بَاسُور (bāsūr), نَاسُور (nāsūr)—, أَقْرَع (ʔaqraʕ, “bald; mangy”) separately developed in Arabic, قَرْعَاء (qarʕāʔ, “a garden devoid of vegetation; calamity, malheur”) is just its feminine, and the present term is rather an unattested Aramaic derivation from ܩܪܥ / קְלַע (qraʕ, “to rend”), compare Classical Syriac ܩܱܪܥܬܴܐ (qarʕəṯā, “baldness on the head”), in Syriac and elsewhere usually קורחתה / ܩܘܰܕܚܬܴܐ‏ (qurḥəṯā, “baldness on the head”), verb קְרַח / ܩܕܱܚ (qraḥ, “to make bald; to be bald”), in the same meaning Hebrew קָרַח (qāraḥ) and comparing to قَرَحَ (qaraḥa, “to wound”), قَرَاح (qarāḥ), قِرْوَاح (qirwāḥ, “land open to sun due to no trees nor water”), and Ge'ez ቀርሐ (ḳärḥä, “to shave, to make bald”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qar.ruː.ʕa/, /qur.ruː.ʕa/

Noun

قَرُّوعَة or قُرُّوعَة • (qarrūʕa or qurrūʕa) f (rare)

1. scabies, mange

   Synonyms: جَرَب (jarab), عَرّ (ʕarr), عَرَر (ʕarar)

   • a. 1200, Dietrich, Albert, editor, Dioscurides triumphans. Ein anonymer arabischer Kommentar (Ende 12. Jahrh. n. Chr.) zur Materia medica. 1. Teil: Arabischer Text (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Philologisch-historische Klasse; Folge 3, Nr. 172), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, published 1988, →ISBN, page 171 lib. IV Nr. 169:

     الكشوث
     قال س: ويسمّى عندنا طنية تأويله قرّوعة،
     أقول: ولم يكن في الأمّ التي قرأنا فيها،
     قال ع: الكشوث هو صنف من أصناف الأفيثمون أو الأفيثمون صنف من أصناف الكشوث، فأمّا الفرق بينهما فهو أنّ الكشوث أكبر بزرا حتّى إنّه يغشّ به بزر البنج وهو أعظم نباتا وأغلظ ساقا وإنّما يتعلّق بالكتّان، والقيثنون أيضا دقيق النبات دقيق البزر جدّا والطيّب منه المتعلّق بالصعتر، ,وقد أوقع بعضهم الكشوث على الأفسنتين.

     Dodder
     S says: It is called amongst us tiña, explained as scabies.
     I say it is not in the original text we have read.
     ʕ says: Dodder is a kind of epithyme, or epithyme is a kind of dodder. The difference between both is that dodder has larger seeds, to the point that henbane seed is dashed thereby, and it is taller and thicker in the stem, and it but betwines flax. Epithyme, moreover, grows short and has sore minute seeds, and the good one hangs with thyme. And some have called absynthe dodder.

Declension

Declension of noun قَرُّوعَة (qarrūʕa)‎; قُرُّوعَة (qurrūʕa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَرُّوعَة‎; قُرُّوعَة qarrūʕa‎; qurrūʕa	الْقَرُّوعَة‎; الْقُرُّوعَة al-qarrūʕa‎; al-qurrūʕa	قَرُّوعَة‎; قُرُّوعَة qarrūʕat‎; qurrūʕat
Nominative	قَرُّوعَةٌ‎; قُرُّوعَةٌ qarrūʕatun‎; qurrūʕatun	الْقَرُّوعَةُ‎; الْقُرُّوعَةُ al-qarrūʕatu‎; al-qurrūʕatu	قَرُّوعَةُ‎; قُرُّوعَةُ qarrūʕatu‎; qurrūʕatu
Accusative	قَرُّوعَةً‎; قُرُّوعَةً qarrūʕatan‎; qurrūʕatan	الْقَرُّوعَةَ‎; الْقُرُّوعَةَ al-qarrūʕata‎; al-qurrūʕata	قَرُّوعَةَ‎; قُرُّوعَةَ qarrūʕata‎; qurrūʕata
Genitive	قَرُّوعَةٍ‎; قُرُّوعَةٍ qarrūʕatin‎; qurrūʕatin	الْقَرُّوعَةِ‎; الْقُرُّوعَةِ al-qarrūʕati‎; al-qurrūʕati	قَرُّوعَةِ‎; قُرُّوعَةِ qarrūʕati‎; qurrūʕati

References

• “qrˁh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “qwrḥh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1022
• Dietrich, Albert, editor (a. 1200), Dioscurides triumphans. Ein anonymer arabischer Kommentar (Ende 12. Jahrh. n. Chr.) zur Materia medica. 2. Teil: Übersetzung und Kommentar (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Philologisch-historische Klasse; Folge 3, Nr. 173) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, published 1988, →ISBN, pages 686–687 Buch IV Nr. 169
• Dombay, Franz Lorenz von (1800) Grammatica linguae Mauro-Arabicae juxta vernaculi idiomatis usum accesit vocabularium Latino-mauro-arabicum‎^[1] (in Latin), Vienna: Camesina, page 89
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “جَرَب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 180b
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قُرَيْعَة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[3] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 332b
• Schiaparelli, Celestino (1871) “قروعة”, in Vocabulista in arabico. Pubblicato per la prima volta sopra un codice della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze (in Arabic), Firenze: Tipografia dei successori Le Monnier, page 160