زعتر

Arabic
زَعْتَر
زَعْتَر

Alternative forms

Etymology

Related to Aramaic צטרא‎ /‎ ܨܬܪܐ‎ (ṣatrā), Hebrew צַתְרָה‎ (ṣátrā), Middle Armenian ծոթրին (cotʿrin).

  • It has been suggested that all are ultimately from Latin saturēia, the origin of which is unknown. The Arabic would be from Aramaic, the ع‎ (ʿ) excrescent.
  • In Mandaville’s conception, there is an “old demonstrative s” seen in Akkadian 𒊭 (/ša/) “with the semantic effect of” Arabic ذُو‎ (ḏū) prefixed to عِطْر‎ (ʿiṭr, “scent”), hence the word means “that which has scent”. (Or is it the plant name عِتْر‎ (ʿitr)? He writes ʿitr and glosses it “perfume”.)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zaʕ.tar/

Noun

زَعْتَر • (zaʿtar) m

  1. zaatar, wild thyme

Declension
Declension of noun زَعْتَر (zaʿtar)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal زَعْتَر
zaʿtar		 الزَّعْتَر‎
az-zaʿtar		 زَعْتَر
zaʿtar
Nominative زَعْتَرٌ
zaʿtarun		 الزَّعْتَرُ‎
az-zaʿtaru		 زَعْتَرُ
zaʿtaru
Accusative زَعْتَرًا‎
zaʿtaran		 الزَّعْتَرَ‎
az-zaʿtara		 زَعْتَرَ
zaʿtara
Genitive زَعْتَرٍ
zaʿtarin		 الزَّعْتَرِ‎
az-zaʿtari		 زَعْتَرِ
zaʿtari

Descendants
  • → Middle Armenian: զահթեր (zahtʿer), սադիր (sadir)
  • → Armenian: զաթար (zatʿar)
  • Maltese: sagħtar (from the variant صَعْتَر‎ (ṣaʿtar))
  • → Ottoman Turkish: سعتر ,زعتر ,زاتر‎ (zater, sater)

References
  • Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred, editors (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden: Brill, page 272
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 143
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 103–104
  • Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 209–210
  • Meyer, Gustav (1892), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 35
  • Vollers, Karl (1896), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 50, page 615
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