كافور
العربية
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كافور¹
- /kaː.fuːr/
Where it comes from
Possibly borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭪𐭠𐭯𐭥𐭫 (kʾpʿl /kāpūr/), borrowed from an Austronesian language, from Proto-Austronesian *qapuʀ. Compare Malay kapur.
noun كَافُور · kāfūr · الْكَافُور · كَافُورٌ
- camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora أَلَا دَفَنْتُم رَسُولَ اللّٰهِ فِي سَفَطٍ — مِنَ الْأَلُوَّةِ وَٱلكَافُورِ مَنْضُودِ
- the chemical compound camphor إِنَّ ٱلْأَبْرَارَ يَشْرَبُونَ مِن كَأْسٍ كَانَ مِزَاجُهَا كَافُورًا
- river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)
كافور²
- /kaː.fuːr/
Where it comes from
The shape KāLūM and the variant form vocalized in three ways especially as ending with ā suggests an Aramaic origin; attested in a broader meaning in Classical Syriac ܟܘܦܪܐ (kuppārā, “sindon; cover of a calyx”) and in Qumranic and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic כופרא (kuppārā, “palm spadix or spathe”), and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic גופרא (guppārā, “inflorescence of a palm”), Classical Mandaic ࡂࡅࡐࡀࡓࡀ (gupara, “inflorescence of a palm”), Classical Syriac ܓܘܦܪܐ (guppārā, “inflorescence also of a palm”). But still these are deemed foreign by Nöldeke following Bar ʿAlī and are probably formed in yet another Semitic language, connecting to the Arabic root ك ف ر (k f r) and غ ف ر (ḡ f r) related to “covering”.
noun كَافُور · kāfūr · كَوافِير · الْكَافُور
- bract of the inflorescence of the date palm
In English
- camphor white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone
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