قرنفل

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • قَرَنْفُول (qaranfūl)

Etymology

Imported from India. Compare Tamil கராம்பு (karāmpu), கிராம்பு (kirāmpu), കരയാമ്പ് (karayāmpŭ), ഗ്രാമ്പൂ (grāmpū), Sinhalese කරාබු (karābu), Tagalog klabong, klabos, kalabumpako, all meaning cloves. From the same source Ancient Greek καρυόφυλλον (karuóphullon), Amharic ቅርንፉድ (ḳərnəfud).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qa.ran.ful/, /qu.ran.ful/
  • Rhymes: -ul

Noun

قَرَنْفُل or قُرَنْفُل • (qaranful or quranful) m

  1. clove (Syzygium aromaticum)
    • 10th century, Al-Mutanabbi, “Poem #201”, in The Works of 'Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī, volume 3, Dār Al-Ma‘rifah, published 1978, pages 201–202:
      وَمَنْزِلٍ لَيْسَ لَنَا بِمَنْزِلِ / وَلَا لِغَيْرِ الْغَادِيَاتِ الْهُطَّلِ
      نَدِيِّ الْخُزَامَى ذَفِرِ الْقَرَنْفُلِ / مُحَلَّلٍ مِلْوَحْشِ لَمْ يُحَلَّلِ
      wamanzilin laysa lanā bimanzili / walā liḡayri l-ḡādiyāti l-huṭṭali
      nadiyyi l-ḵuzāmā ḏafiri al-qaranfuli / muḥallalin milwaḥši lam yuḥallali
      A place, which has never been a stop for us
      Nor anyone but the show'ring daybreak-clouds,
      With dewy lavenders, and fragrant cloves,
      Settled by the wildlife, and no one else.
  2. pink, carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus)

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

  • Maltese: qronfol
  • Aramaic:
    • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: קרונפול
    • Classical Syriac: ܩܪܢܦܘܠܐ
  • Dhivehi: ކަރަންފޫ (karan̊fū)
  • Israeli Hebrew: קרנפול
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (see there for further descendants)
  • Swahili: karafuu
  • Yoruba: kànáfùrù, kànnáfùrù
  • Hausa: kanumfari

References

Hijazi Arabic

قُرُنْفُل

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡu.run.ful/, [ɡʊ.rʊɱ.fʊl]

Noun

قُرُنْفُل • (gurunful) m (collective)

  1. carnation (flower)
  2. clove (spice)

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qrun.ful/

Noun

قرنفل • (qrunful) m (collective)

  1. carnation (flower)
  2. clove (spice)
    Synonym: عود النوار (ʕūd en-nuwwār)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Noun

قرنفل • (karanfil)

  1. carnation (flower)
  2. clove (spice)

Descendants

Persian

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [qä.ɾäɱ.fʊ́l]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [qä.ɾäɱ.fʊ́l]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [qä.ɾäɱ.fúl̥]

Readings
Classical reading? qaranful
Dari reading? qaranful
Iranian reading? ğaranfol
Tajik reading? qaranful

Noun

قرنفل • (qaranfol)

  1. carnation (flower)
  2. clove (spice)

Descendants

  • Adyghe: къэрмэфибл (qɛrmɛfibl)
  • Azerbaijani: qərənfil
  • Bashkir: ҡәләмфер (qələmfer), ҡәнәфер (qənəfer)
  • Kazakh: қалампыр (qalampyr)
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: qerefîl, qerenfîl
    Central Kurdish: قەنەفِڵ (qenefill)
  • Kyrgyz: калемпир (kalempir)
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (see there for further descendants)
    > Turkish: karanfil (inherited)
  • Uyghur: قەرەنفىل (qerenfil), قەلەمپۇر (qelempur)
  • Uzbek: qalampir
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