أقحوان

Arabic

Alternative forms

قُحْوَان (quḥwān)

Etymology

Unknown, likely a lost Aramaic word that was borrowed comparatively early into Arabic, perhaps related to Jewish Palestinian Aramaic קוחא and Classical Syriac ܩܘܚܐ (qūḥā, “stalk; petiole”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔuq.ħu.waːn/

Noun

أُقْحُوَان • (ʔuqḥuwān) m (collective, singulative أُقْحُوَانَة f (ʔuqḥuwāna), plural أَقَاحٍ (ʔaqāḥin) or أَقَاحِيّ (ʔaqāḥiyy))

a name for various tubuliflorous composites of ligulate flower heads
1. Chrysanthemum in a wide sense also including species otherwise sorted under Glebionis, Coleostephus
2. Anthemis, Matricaria, Chamaemelum spp.
  Synonym: بَابُونَج (bābūnaj)
3. Bellis spp.
  Synonym: زَهْر اللُؤْلُؤ (zahr al-luʔluʔ)
4. (obsolete) Helichrysum spp.
  Synonym: ذَهَب الشَمْس (ḏahab aš-šams)
5. (obsolete) Aster, Tripolium, Galatella spp.

Declension

Declension of noun **أُقْحُوَان** (ʔuqḥuwān)
collective	basic collective triptote
collective	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أُقْحُوَان ʔuqḥuwān	الْأُقْحُوَان al-ʔuqḥuwān	أُقْحُوَان ʔuqḥuwān
nominative	أُقْحُوَانٌ ʔuqḥuwānun	الْأُقْحُوَانُ al-ʔuqḥuwānu	أُقْحُوَانُ ʔuqḥuwānu
accusative	أُقْحُوَانًا ʔuqḥuwānan	الْأُقْحُوَانَ al-ʔuqḥuwāna	أُقْحُوَانَ ʔuqḥuwāna
genitive	أُقْحُوَانٍ ʔuqḥuwānin	الْأُقْحُوَانِ al-ʔuqḥuwāni	أُقْحُوَانِ ʔuqḥuwāni
singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
singulative	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أُقْحُوَانَة ʔuqḥuwāna	الْأُقْحُوَانَة al-ʔuqḥuwāna	أُقْحُوَانَة ʔuqḥuwānat
nominative	أُقْحُوَانَةٌ ʔuqḥuwānatun	الْأُقْحُوَانَةُ al-ʔuqḥuwānatu	أُقْحُوَانَةُ ʔuqḥuwānatu
accusative	أُقْحُوَانَةً ʔuqḥuwānatan	الْأُقْحُوَانَةَ al-ʔuqḥuwānata	أُقْحُوَانَةَ ʔuqḥuwānata
genitive	أُقْحُوَانَةٍ ʔuqḥuwānatin	الْأُقْحُوَانَةِ al-ʔuqḥuwānati	أُقْحُوَانَةِ ʔuqḥuwānati
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أُقْحُوَانَتَيْن ʔuqḥuwānatayn	الْأُقْحُوَانَتَيْن al-ʔuqḥuwānatayn	أُقْحُوَانَتَيْ ʔuqḥuwānatay
nominative	أُقْحُوَانَتَانِ ʔuqḥuwānatāni	الْأُقْحُوَانَتَانِ al-ʔuqḥuwānatāni	أُقْحُوَانَتَا ʔuqḥuwānatā
accusative	أُقْحُوَانَتَيْنِ ʔuqḥuwānatayni	الْأُقْحُوَانَتَيْنِ al-ʔuqḥuwānatayni	أُقْحُوَانَتَيْ ʔuqḥuwānatay
genitive	أُقْحُوَانَتَيْنِ ʔuqḥuwānatayni	الْأُقْحُوَانَتَيْنِ al-ʔuqḥuwānatayni	أُقْحُوَانَتَيْ ʔuqḥuwānatay
paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
paucal (3-10)	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أُقْحُوَانَات ʔuqḥuwānāt	الْأُقْحُوَانَات al-ʔuqḥuwānāt	أُقْحُوَانَات ʔuqḥuwānāt
nominative	أُقْحُوَانَاتٌ ʔuqḥuwānātun	الْأُقْحُوَانَاتُ al-ʔuqḥuwānātu	أُقْحُوَانَاتُ ʔuqḥuwānātu
accusative	أُقْحُوَانَاتٍ ʔuqḥuwānātin	الْأُقْحُوَانَاتِ al-ʔuqḥuwānāti	أُقْحُوَانَاتِ ʔuqḥuwānāti
genitive	أُقْحُوَانَاتٍ ʔuqḥuwānātin	الْأُقْحُوَانَاتِ al-ʔuqḥuwānāti	أُقْحُوَانَاتِ ʔuqḥuwānāti
plural of variety	broken plural diptote in ـٍ (-in)‎; basic broken plural diptote
plural of variety	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أَقَاحِي ʔaqāḥī	الْأَقَاحِي al-ʔaqāḥī	أَقَاحِي ʔaqāḥī
nominative	أَقَاحٍ‎; أَقَاحِيُّ ʔaqāḥin‎; ʔaqāḥiyyu	الْأَقَاحِي‎; الْأَقَاحِيُّ al-ʔaqāḥī‎; al-ʔaqāḥiyyu	أَقَاحِي‎; أَقَاحِيُّ ʔaqāḥī‎; ʔaqāḥiyyu
accusative	أَقَاحِيَ‎; أَقَاحِيَّ ʔaqāḥiya‎; ʔaqāḥiyya	الْأَقَاحِيَ‎; الْأَقَاحِيَّ al-ʔaqāḥiya‎; al-ʔaqāḥiyya	أَقَاحِيَ‎; أَقَاحِيَّ ʔaqāḥiya‎; ʔaqāḥiyya
genitive	أَقَاحٍ‎; أَقَاحِيَّ ʔaqāḥin‎; ʔaqāḥiyya	الْأَقَاحِي‎; الْأَقَاحِيِّ al-ʔaqāḥī‎; al-ʔaqāḥiyyi	أَقَاحِي‎; أَقَاحِيِّ ʔaqāḥī‎; ʔaqāḥiyyi

Derived terms

رَأَى أَقَاحِيَ ٱلْأَمْرِ (raʔā ʔaqāḥiya l-ʔamri)

References

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 1005
Freytag, Georg (1835) “أقحوان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 403
“qwḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–