جوز القيء
Arabic
Alternative forms
- جَوْز مُقَيِّء (jawz muqayyiʔ)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒawz al.qajʔ/
Noun
جَوْز القَيْء • (jawz al-qayʔ) m
- mafura (Trichilia emetica)
- Synonyms: رُقَع (ruqaʕ), جَوْز الرُقَع (jawz ar-ruqaʕ)
- vomit nut (Strychnos nux-vomica)
Usage notes
It first referred to the African plant Trichilia emetica and from the sixteenth to seventeenth European century it was replaced by the Southeast Asian Strychnos nux-vomica.
Declension
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | — | جَوْز الْقَيْء jawz al-qayʔ |
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| nominative | — | جَوْزُ الْقَيْءِ jawzu l-qayʔi |
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| accusative | — | جَوْزَ الْقَيْءِ jawza l-qayʔi |
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| genitive | — | جَوْزِ الْقَيْءِ jawzi l-qayʔi |
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References
- Amar, Zohar, Lev, Efraim (2016) Arabian Drugs in Medieval Mediterranean Medicine, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 138