ملوخية

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Arabic

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مُلُوخِيَّة
 ملوخية on Arabic Wikipedia

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek μολόχιον (molókhion, mallow) (its plural).

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Noun

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مُلُوخِيَّة (mulūḵiyyaf

  1. mulukhiyah (Corchorus gen. et spp., most often Corchorus olitorius, and the vegetable thereof)
    • c. 900, أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي (Rhazes), edited by Oliver Kahl, The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian Sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes (كتاب الحاوي) (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 93), Leiden: Brill, published 2015, →ISBN, RḤ 10/210,10–13, page 194:
      جورجس في الديابيطا، قال: تنفعه الأمخاخ والأدمغة إذا أكله ولحوم الجداء والأكارع والقثاء والخيار والملوخيا والخس.
      Jūrgis said about diabetes that what helps against it are marrows and brains when eaten and the meats of young goats and their trotters, snake melon and cucumber, Egyptian spinach and lettuce.
    • a. 1222, نَجِيب الدِّين السَّمَرْقَنْدِيّ [najīb ad-dīn as-samarqandiyy], edited by Juliane Müller, كِتَاب الْأَغْذِيَة وَٱلْأَشْرِبَة [kitāb al-ʔaḡdiya wa-l-ʔǎšriba] (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 101)‎[1], Leiden: Brill, published 2017, →ISBN, page 178:
      المُلُوكية وهي الخُبّازَى البستاني. إنّ لهذه البقلة من اللزوجة والرطوبة ما ليس الخس، ولذلك هي سريعة الانحدار جيّدة الغذاء سيّما إذا أُكلت مع زيت ومرّي كثير وغير ذلك ممّا يقطع لزوجتها وينقص رطوبتها.
      The Jew's mallow is the cultivated mallow. This vegetable is of a stickiness and clamminess lettuce does not have, therefore it descends fast and nourishes well, especially if it is eaten with oil and much murrī and other things, cutting the gluten and bating the moisture.

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Moroccan Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic مُلُوخِيَّة (mulūḵiyya).

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Noun

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ملوخية (mlūḵiyyaf (usually uncountable)

  1. okra