فصفص
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فصفص
Where it comes from
PIE word
*h₁éḱwos
Borrowed from Aramaic אַסְפַּסְתָּא (ʾaspastā) / ܐܰܣܦܷܣܬܳܐ (ʾaspestā, “lucerne”), from Akkadian 𒊍𒉺𒊍𒋾 (aspastu, “presumably lucerne”), from Old Median *aspāstiš (“lucerne”), from Proto-Iranian *HacwaHastiš (“lucerne”, literally “horse-food”) from Proto-Iranian *Hácwah (“horse”) + Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“related to eating”) + *-tis, the Assyrians having it borrowed when modelling their cavalry after the Medes and thus taking over this name for a plant serving as horse food, passing it to the Babylonian, which is the most likely linguistic evolution.
noun فَصْفَص · فِصْفِص · faṣfaṣ · fiṣfiṣ · فَصْفَصَة · فِصْفِصَة
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lucerne, alfalfa (Medicago sativa and its produce)
Similar: رَطْبَة, بِرْسِيم حِجَازِيّ
In English
- alfalfa Medicago sativa
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