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安石榴

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Chinese

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Arsacid Empire; Parthian Empire pomegranate
trad. (安石榴) 安石
simp. #(安石榴) 安石

Etymology

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So named as it was brought to China by Zhang Qian from the Arsacid Empire (安石) in Irania.

The botanist Li Shizhen suggests that (OC *m·ru) here is the same as (OC *m·ru, *m·rus, “lump, tumour”), as the pomegranate fruit resembles cancerous outgrowth on the body. The reconstructed consonants of this part equal those of a wanderwort for the pomegranate present in Arabic رُمَّان (rummān, pomegranate), see it for other languages.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1
Initial () (34) (25) (37)
Final () (61) (123) (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () I III III
Fanqie
Baxter 'an dzyek ljuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɑn/ /d͡ʑiᴇk̚/ /lɨu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɑn/ /d͡ʑiɛk̚/ /liu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɑn/ /d͡ʑiæk̚/ /liəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔan/ /d͡ʑiajk̚/ /luw/
Li
Rong
/ʔɑn/ /ʑiɛk̚/ /liu/
Wang
Li
/ɑn/ /ʑĭɛk̚/ /lĭəu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʔɑn/ /ʑi̯ɛk̚/ /li̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ān shí liú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
on1 sik6 lau4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
ān ān ān shí
Middle
Chinese
‹ 'an › ‹ 'an › ‹ 'an › ‹ dzyek ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ʔ]ˁa[n]/ /*[ʔ]ˁa[n]/ /*[ʔ]ˁa[n]/ /*dAk/
English peace(ful) how 安息 Ānxī (Iranian country in the western regions, W. Hàn; from Aršaka = Arsaces, founder of the Arsacid dynasty) stone

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1
No. 11 11470 8886
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qaːn/ /*djaɡ/ /*m·ru/

Noun

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安石榴

  1. (archaic) pomegranate

Synonyms

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