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چِيرَامٞه

žirέmeʰ (du. žirɛmíti, pl. žírhɛm)

basic morphological information

n. (f.)

fruit of Ziziphus spina-christi
плод растения Ziziphus spina-christi
دوم

LS 157; CSOL I 702

text examples

báˁad-aḷ ˁemɛ́roʰ ˁážeʰ dɛ́nˁaʰ ḷetóˁos ˁággi wa-zaˁáyoʰ díˀʸhi ḥídho wa-žirɛ́meʰ wa-ṭahɛ́roʰ ‘After the woman said this, the men killed her, took their roots and their berries of Ziziphus spina-christi and went off’ (CSOL I 4:11)

root

žrm

derivates

žέrim to gather Ziziphus fruit

etymology

The botanical designation žirέmeʰ is to be derived from PWS *garm- ‘bone’, alluding to the big stone characteristic of the Ziziphus fruit, cf. especially Arb. ǯarām-. The verb górim ‘to gather Ziziphus fruit’ is certainly denominative. Contra LS 116, there is hardly any direct connection between górim and Arb. ǯrm ‘to cut off the dates’.