كافور

كافور: حكى الثعالبي أنه فارسي. وكذا قال الجواليقي.

كافور:

(كافور) :

قيل معرب، ويقال قافور وقفور.

كافور: في اليونانية kafoura وهو صمغ شجرة تنبت في الهند والصين واليابان، أبيض لماع شفاف قابل الاحتراق طيّب الرائحة ومرّ.

كَافُور (noun)

Etymology: 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”.

Meaning: bract of the inflorescence of the date palm

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