اسپست

Persian

Alternative forms

  • اسپس‎ (espes, aspes)
  • سپست‎ (spest)
  • اسفست‎ (esfest)
  • سبیس‎ (sbis)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (aspast), according to Horn, literally “fodder for horses”։ for the constituents see اسپ‎ (asp, “horse”) and خوردن‎ (xordan, “to eat”). Akkadian [script needed] (aspastu, “an edible garden plant or an herb, perhaps alfalfa”), Classical Syriac ܐܣܦܣܬܐ‎ (ʾespestā, “alfalfa”) are probably borrowed from Iranian.

Noun

اسپست • (espest, aspest)

  1. alfalfa, lucerne

Synonyms

  • یونجه‎ (yonje)

Descendants

  • Arabic: فصفصة‎ (fiṣfiṣa, faṣfaṣa)
  • Balochi: [script needed] (aspust)
  • English: alfalfa
  • Middle Armenian: ասպաստ (aspast)
    • Armenian: ասպաստ (aspast)

See also

  • اسپرس‎ (espers)

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “ասպաստ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 272ab
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 79, page 19
  • Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 56
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