كهنايا

Arabic

Alternative forms
  • كَهْيَانَا (kahyānā), of wider distribution but taṣḥīf, for it mimics a common borrowed ending in عَجَمِيّ (ʕajamiyy, “foreign, Persian”) words as in رازیانه (rāziyānā), بادیانه (bādiyāna), hence in Persian کهیانه (kahyāna) beside کهیانا (kahyānā)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܥܷܣܒܳܐ ܟܳܗܢܳܝܳܐ (ʕesbā kāhnāyā, “peony”, literally “priestly grass”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kah.naː.jaː/

Noun

كَهْنَايَا • (kahnāyā) f

  1. (obsolete) peony (Paeonia gen. et spp.)
    Synonyms: فَاوَانِيَا (fāwāniyā), عُود الصَّلِيب (ʕūd aṣ-ṣalīb), (al-Andalus) وَرْد الْحَمِير (ward al-ḥamīr)

Declension
Declension of noun كَهْنَايَا (kahnāyā)
Singular singular invariable
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal كَهْنَايَا
kahnāyā		 الْكَهْنَايَا
al-kahnāyā		 كَهْنَايَا
kahnāyā
Nominative كَهْنَايَا
kahnāyā		 الْكَهْنَايَا
al-kahnāyā		 كَهْنَايَا
kahnāyā
Accusative كَهْنَايَا
kahnāyā		 الْكَهْنَايَا
al-kahnāyā		 كَهْنَايَا
kahnāyā
Genitive كَهْنَايَا
kahnāyā		 الْكَهْنَايَا
al-kahnāyā		 كَهْنَايَا
kahnāyā

Descendants
  • → Classical Persian: کهنایا (kahnāyā)

References
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1125, still incorrect
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “كهيانا”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 496a
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎ (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 366
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 124
  • Ullmann, Manfred (1959–1970) Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache. Band I (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 579b
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