زعرور

Meaning

thornapple, medlar (Crataegus gen. et spp., fruit and tree)

Concepts

Crataegus

hawthorns

ill-tempered

irascible

may

whitethorns

quickthorns

hawthorn

common hawthorn

Translations

aubépine

Crataegus

Cratägus

Crataegus

Weißdorn

Crataegus

Crataegus

biancospino

biancospini

lazzeruolo

Eingriffliger Weißdorn

pruni agazzini

Weissdorn

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic, there with forms as עוזררא, אנזעררתא, זרדתא, זרתא, זודתא, זירדתא, אוזר, חוזרר, חזרור, חיזרר, ܥܙܪܪܬܐ. Perhaps from an Egyptian expression like Sahidic Coptic ⲥⲟⲩⲣⲉ ⲁⲣⲟⲟⲩⲉ (soure arooue, literally “needle-thistle”), which would explain the distribution of similar Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon, “medlar”), Moroccan Arabic مزاح (mzāḥ, “loquats, medlars”), Proto-Kartvelian *sxmarṭl- (“medlar”), Middle Armenian զկեռ (zkeṙ, “medlar”), Persian ازگیل (azgil, “medlar”), Georgian ასკილი (asḳili, “dog rose, briar”). However as the speech is of pome fruits, the form חֲזְרוּרָא (ḥăzrūrā) may be most original and reduplicated from the known term ܚܙܘܪܐ / חֲזוּרָא (ḥăzzūrā, “apple”).