شكوس

• شَقْوَاص‎ (šaqwāṣ)

From Latin salicastrum through aphaeresis and metathesis. The Spanish jaguarzo, juaguarzo is borrowed from an intermediate form with /r/. From a Romance variant is Spanish arcazón (“osier-twig”), Galician chaguazo, chagazo (“a kind of rockrose”), Portuguese sargaço (“gulfweed”), from Por­tu­guese Spanish sargazo and the bo­ta­nic Sargassum.

• IPA^(key): /ʃak.was/

شَكْوَس • (šakwas) m

(al-Andalus)

1. rockrose (Cistus or Halimium spp.)
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام‎ [Yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʾaḥmad ibn al-ʿawwām], José Antonio Banqueri, editor, كتاب الفلاحة‎ [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 29, Art. 15, pages 386–387:

     ‏والشكوس قال أبو الخير وغيره هو الورد الفحصيّ وقيل البريّ وهو نوعان أحدهما يسمّى بالعجميّة الرحبل ورقه في قدر ورق الزيتون وأطول وأعرض أغبر أحرش وأغضانه خشنة صلبة إلى البياض ما هي تطلع في زمن الربيع نوره كالورد حمراء فائتة وفي وسطها صفرة وهذا هو المسمّى الورد الفحصيّ ويقال إن الورد إن ركب فيه فينجب والنوع الثاني من الشكوس ورقه أصغر من ورق الأول وأشدّ خضرة وهو أحرش بين الاستدار والطول وأغضانه إلى الحمراء ما هي تطلع وردا أبيضا ناصعة في وسطها وكلاهما لاحق بالأشجار.‎‎

     And the rockrose, say Abū al-Ḵayr and others, is the field rose, and also the land rose, it is said, and there are two kinds: One is called in Berber raḥbal and its leaves are of the dimensions of the leaves of the olive but longer and wider, more gray and rugged, and its branches are rough, stiff and lean into white, and in spring it blossoms in roses of a red hue you almost miss, and in their mid there is yellow and this is called field rose, and it is said that if a rose is grafted onto it it will prevail. The second kind of rockrose has smaller leaves than the first, of a more intense green, and it is more rugged around and along, and its branches lean into red and spawn white roses, vivid in the middle. And both liaise with trees.

• Corriente, Federico (2008), “arcazón”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 186
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “شَقْوَاص”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 776
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “شَكْوَس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 776
• Pensado, José Luis (1974) Opúsculos lingüísticos gallegos del siglo XVIII, Salamanca: Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 121