قوقا

From Classical Syriac ܩܝܩܐܣ (qīqās), ܩܝܩܘܣ (qīqōs), from Ancient Greek κηκίς (kēkís).

• IPA^(key): /quː.qaː/

قُوقَا • (qūqā) m (obsolete)

1. oakgall

   Synonym: عَفْص (ʕafṣ)

   • a. 869, سَابُورُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ [Sābūr ibn Sahl], edited by Oliver Kahl, Dispensatorium Parvum (al-Aqrābādhīn al-saghīr) (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 16), Leiden: Brill, published 1994, →ISBN, page 110 Nr. 145:

     صنعة القُوقا
     النافع لِلاختلاف والحابس لِلبطن ونافع من قروح الأمعاء واختلاف الدم وهو حَبّ العَفْص

     The preparation of qūqā,
     useful against regurgitation, astricting the belly, also useful against intestinal ulcers and regurgitant bleeding—it is nut-galls.

• سَابُورُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ [Sābūr ibn Sahl] (a. 869) Oliver Kahl, editor, Dispensatorium Parvum (al-Aqrābādhīn al-saghīr) (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 16) (in Arabic), Leiden: Brill, published 1994, →ISBN, pages 220–221 note 162
• Payne Smith, Robert (1901) Thesaurus Syriacus (in Latin), volume 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, column 3610