Kurbech
Kurbech arabice eleborus.
Apparatus:
Khurbech ef | Kurbech B j | Khurbech p {‘h’ written superscript by different hand} | Kurbeth AC {'c' misread as 't'}
elleborus (-us f) ef | eleborus (-us B j) ABC jp
Translation:
Kurbech is Arabic for Latin eleborus {"hellebore"}.
Commentary:
Wehr (1976): ﺧﺮﺑﻖ /ḫarbaq/ "hellebore (bot.)".
Siggel (1950: 32): ﺧﺮﺑﻖ /ḫarbaq/ 1) ḫ. abyaḍ Veratrum album (Lil.).{i.e. "False helleborine, White hellebore"}. 2) ḫ. aswad e. Helleborus (Ranuncul.); {i.e. some species of the genus Helleborus} 3) Kurkuma-Wz. {"turmeric"}. 4) vgl. ḥarbaq {cf. p. 28: ﺣﺮﺑﻖ /ḥarbaq/, i. Spanien: Mercurialis annua (Euphorb.) {i.e. in Spain: "annual mercury"}
WilfGunther (talk) 20:54, 5 December 2015 (GMT)
See also: Elleborus (1), Elleborus (2), Karbech, Veratrum