قيصوم

Arabic

قَيْصُوم

Etymology

Considered a more popular variant of the likely original قَيْسُوم (qaysūm, “various plant types, southernwood”), itself interrelated with the roots ق ي س (q-y-s) denoting a measure or a piece and ق س م (q-s-m) a division, compare also the native ق و س (q-w-s) a bow, a piece of flexible wood. Likely semantically a loan from or conflated with Aramaic קיסמא (qismā, “a chip, a piece of wood, a branch”) and Aramaic קיס (qēs, “wood”), hence being later applied to various small trees, bushes, and shrubs. Cognates found showing similar semantic senses with Classical Syriac ܩܝܣܘܢ (qaysōn, “small piece of wood”) and Samaritan Aramaic ࠒࠉࠑࠌ (qīṣm, “wood as a material, pole; used in preference to the typical עֵץ in Samaritan scripture”) even being attested with a parallel Ṣād.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qaj.sˤuːm/

Noun

قَيْصُوم • (qayṣūm) m

1. yarrow (Achillea gen. et spp.)

Declension

Declension of noun قَيْصُوم (qayṣūm)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَيْصُوم qayṣūm	الْقَيْصُوم al-qayṣūm	قَيْصُوم qayṣūm
Nominative	قَيْصُومٌ qayṣūmun	الْقَيْصُومُ al-qayṣūmu	قَيْصُومُ qayṣūmu
Accusative	قَيْصُومًا qayṣūman	الْقَيْصُومَ al-qayṣūma	قَيْصُومَ qayṣūma
Genitive	قَيْصُومٍ qayṣūmin	الْقَيْصُومِ al-qayṣūmi	قَيْصُومِ qayṣūmi