Arabic

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

From Middle PersianClassical Persian ریچال (rēčāl).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

رِيصَال (rīṣālm (plural رَوَاصِيل (rawāṣīl))

  1. (obsolete, rare) sweet preserve, confiture
    Synonyms: أَنْبِج (ʔanbij), مُرَبًّى (murabban), تَطْلِيّ (taṭliyy)
    Coordinate terms: عُشَّار (ʕuššār), مُخَلَّل (muḵallal), طُرْشِيّ (ṭuršiyy), كَبِيس (kabīs)
    • 850–861, علي بن سهل ربن الطبري [ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī], edited by Oliver Kahl, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī’s Health Regimen or “Book of the Pearl” كتاب اللؤلؤة (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 115), Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →ISBN, § 97, page 116:
      ومثل الألبان والرواصيل والبليلج فإنها غذاء لأهل الجبال وسم لأهل العراق
      And likewise, milk and confitures and myrobalans are food for mountain dwellers and poison for shore people.
    • 975–997, محمد بن أحمد الخوارزمي [muḥammad ibn ʕaḥmad al-ḵwārizmī], edited by Gerlof van Vloten, مفاتيح العلوم [mafātīḥ al-ʕulūm], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1895, page 168 line 5:
      الرَوَاصِير (var. الرَوَاصِيل) جمع رِيصَار (var. رِيصَال) وهو الرِيجَار (var. رِيجَال)
      rawāṣīr (var. rawāṣīl) is the plural of rīṣār (var. rīṣāl), that is rījār (var. rījāl)
      commented in Seidel, Ernst (1915) “Die Medizin im Kitâb Mafâtîḥ al ʿUlûm”, in Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen[1] (in German), volume 47, page 30 Anm. 77

Declension

edit
  NODES