Rotab

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Rotab arabice dactili qui et tamar vocantur et aliis pluribus nominibus secundum diversitates specierum eorum ex parte maturitatis formarum et regionum etiam vocantur.


Apparatus:

Rotab is not rubricated in B, it is placed in the paragraoh beginning with Rosago.

tamar AC e | thamar B | camar f ('t' misread as 'c')

eorum om. e


Translation:

Rotab is Arabic for Latin dactili {"dates"}, which are also called tamar in Arabic and by many other names according to the difference of their kind depending partly on ripeness, shapes and regions.


Commentary:

Wehr (1976): ﺭﻁﺐ /ruṭab/ "fresh, ripe dates"; ﺗﻣﺮ /tamr/ "dates, esp. dried ones".


See also Dactilos, Tamar


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