دارفلفل

Arabic

Etymology

Univerbation of دَار فِلْفِل (dār filfil), دَار الفِلْفِل (dār al-filfil, house of pepper), originally denoting “the whole house of pepper-like spices”. The similarity to Persian دار (dâr, tree) is coincidental, and in Persian, دارفلفل (dârfelfel) is used less often than the Arabic, because of the existence of other words for this item in Persian, and the sometimes mentioned form دارپلپل (dârpelpel) is rare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daːr.fil.fil/

Noun

دَارْفِلْفِل • (dārfilfilm

  1. long pepper

Declension

Declension of noun دَارْفِلْفِل (dārfilfil)
singular basic singular triptote
indefinite definite construct
informal دَارْفِلْفِل
dārfilfil
الدَّارْفِلْفِل
ad-dārfilfil
دَارْفِلْفِل
dārfilfil
nominative دَارْفِلْفِلٌ
dārfilfilun
الدَّارْفِلْفِلُ
ad-dārfilfilu
دَارْفِلْفِلُ
dārfilfilu
accusative دَارْفِلْفِلًا
dārfilfilan
الدَّارْفِلْفِلَ
ad-dārfilfila
دَارْفِلْفِلَ
dārfilfila
genitive دَارْفِلْفِلٍ
dārfilfilin
الدَّارْفِلْفِلِ
ad-dārfilfili
دَارْفِلْفِلِ
dārfilfili

Descendants

  • Middle Armenian: դարիպղպեղ (daripġpeġ), դարապղպեղ (darapġpeġ)
  • Persian: دارفلفل (dârfelfel), دارپلپل (dâr-pelpel), فلفل‌دار (felfel-dâr), دار فلفل (dâr-felfel, dâr-e felfel)
  • Ottoman Turkish: دارفلفل (dar-ı filfil), دار فلفل (dar-fülfül, dar-filfil, dar-ı fülfül, dar-ı filfil)
    • Turkish: darülfülfül, darıfülfül, darifülfül
    • Bulgarian: дарфирфи́р (darfirfír), дар-фирфи́р (dar-firfír), дара́-фирфир (dará-firfir) (дарѣ́-фирфир), дара́-фирфил (dará-firfil)

References

  • Abu Rejxan Beruni (1973) Izbrannyje proizvedenija. Tom 4. Farmakognozija v medicine (Kitab as-Sajdana fi-tibb) [Selected Works. Volume 4. Book on the Pharmacopoeia of Medicine] (in Russian), research, translation, notes and indexes by U. I. Karimov, Tashkent: Uzbek SSR Academy Press, page 439
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 138
  • Venzlaff, Helga (1977) Der marokkanische Drogenhändler und seine Ware. Ein Beitrag zu Terminologie und volkstümlichem Gebrauch traditioneller arabischer Materia Medica (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Veröffentlichungen der orientalischen Kommission; 31) (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, →ISBN, page 78, footnote 83

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic دَارْفِلْفِل (dārfilfil).

Noun

دارفلفل • (darfülfül, darfilfil)

  1. long pepper

Descendants

  • Turkish: darülfülfül, darıfülfül, darifülfül
  • Bulgarian: дарфирфи́р (darfirfír), дар-фирфи́р (dar-firfír), дара́-фирфир (dará-firfir) (дарѣ́-фирфир), дара́-фирфил (dará-firfil)

Persian

Alternative forms

  • دارپلپل (dâr-pelpel)
  • فلفل‌دار (felfel-dâr)
  • دار فلفل (dâr-felfel, dâr-e felfel)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَارْفِلْفِل (dārfilfil).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ɑːɾ.fɪl.fɪl]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d̪ɑːɾ.fɪl.fɪl]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d̪ɔːɾ.fil.fil̥]

Readings
Classical reading? dārfilfil
Dari reading? dārfilfil
Iranian reading? dârfelfel
Tajik reading? dorfilfil

Noun

دارفلفل • (dârfelfel)

  1. long pepper
    Synonyms: فلفل دراز (felfel darâz), فلفلمویه (felfelmuye), فلفل مویه (felfel-muye), فلفل بلند (felfel boland)