ششقاقل

شَشْقَاقُل (noun)

Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܫܰܫܩܳܩܽܘܠ (šašqāqūl), ܫܺܝܫܩܩܘܠ (šišqāqūl). Also attested unreliably in the interpolated synonyms of Dioscorides 3, 69, for Punic as ασκαουκαου ~ ασκαουκαυ = ἐλαφόβοσκον (elaphóboskon):
40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, De Materia Medica 3.69:^(http://www.poesialatina.it/_ns/Greek/testi/Dioscorides/De_materia_medica_(recensiones_e_codd._Vindob.).html):
ἐλαφοβόσκον· οἱ δὲ ἐλαφικόν, οἱ δὲ νέβρειον, οἱ δὲ ὀφιογένιον, οἱ δὲ ὀφιοκτόνον, οἱ δὲ ἑρπυξή, οἱ δὲ λύμη, Ῥωμαῖοι κέρβι ὀκέλλουμ, οἱ δὲ κερβίνα, Αἰγύπτιοι χημίς, Ἄφροι ἀσκαουκαού.
elaphobóskon; hoi dè elaphikón, hoi dè nébreion, hoi dè ophiogénion, hoi dè ophioktónon, hoi dè herpuxḗ, hoi dè lúmē, Rhōmaîoi kérbi okélloum, hoi dè kerbína, Aigúptioi khēmís, Áphroi askaoukaoú.
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This would not preclude Middle Iranian origin analogous to Persianate شِشْبَنْدَان (šišbandān, “white bryony, Bryonia alba”), as Punic also had 𐤂𐤆𐤓 (gzr /⁠gizar⁠/) etymologically identical with Persian گزر (gazar, “carrot”). Recorded with the anlaut of Arabic حَسَك (ḥasak, “puncture-vine”) or alternatively the Old Iranian basis anlaut of Persian شش (⁠šaš⁠, “six”) even in Classical Syriac ܚܰܫܩܻܝܩܰܠ (ḥašqīqal), حَشْقِيقَل (ḥašqīqal), however not in Persian barring reborrowings, their word for the species being نهشل (nahšal).