Khaxkhax

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Khaxkhax arabice papaver sed Stephanus cascasum scripsit.


Apparatus:

Khaxkhax AC | Khaxkaix f | Khaskhax ms. e | Kaxkhax j | Khaxkhiax p | Kaxchar B
cascasum (sũ- AC) AC f | cascassũ B jp | scacasuʒ ms. e


Translation:

Khaxkhax is Arabic for Latin papaver {"poppy"}, but Stephanus writes cascasum.


Commentary:

Wehr (1976): ﺧﺸﺨﺎﺶ /ḫašḫāš/ "poppy"; Siggel (1950: 32): ﺧﺸﺨﺎﺶ /ḫašḫāš/ Papaver somniferum, Mohn {i.e. "poppy"}.

Stephanus in his Breviarium writes: micõ … papauer … chaschasũ [[1]]; n.b. Greek μήκων /mḗkōn/, itacist /míkon/, means "poppy; esp. opium poppy, Papaver somniferum" (LSJ).

Stephanus likes to give Arabic lemmata a Latinised appearance often by adding an ending, here +um.

WilfGunther 08/12/13

See also: Cascasum, Scascasum, Mecon, Opium


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