安石榴

Chinese

pomegranate
simp. and trad.
(安石榴)		 安石 榴

Etymology

So named as it was brought to China by Zhang Qian from the Arsacid Empire (安石) in Irania.

The botanist Li Shizhen suggests that 榴 (OC *m·ru) here is the same as 瘤 (OC *m·ru, *m·rus, “lump, tumour”), as the pomegranate fruit resembles cancerous outgrowth on the body.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 安 石 榴
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 常 (25) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 寒 (61) 昔 (123) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) I III III
Fanqie 烏寒切 常隻切 力求切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔɑn/ /d͡ʑiᴇk̚/ /lɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔɑn/ /d͡ʑiɛk̚/ /liu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔɑn/ /d͡ʑiæk̚/ /liəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔan/ /d͡ʑiajk̚/ /luw/
Li
Rong		 /ʔɑn/ /ʑiɛk̚/ /liu/
Wang
Li		 /ɑn/ /ʑĭɛk̚/ /lĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔɑn/ /ʑi̯ɛk̚/ /li̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ān shí liú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 石
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*dAk/
English stone

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 安 石 榴
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1
No. 11 11470 8886
Phonetic
component		 安 石 卯
Rime
group		 元 鐸 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1 0 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 安 石 劉
Old
Chinese		 /*qaːn/ /*djaɡ/ /*m·ru/

Noun

安石榴

  1. (archaic) Original form of 石榴 (shíliú, “pomegranate”).
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