Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term
Rhubarb
This has been a mystery to me for a number of years. Although my dictionary gives it as “ravent” I'm not too happy with that without some kind of further confirmation, as so many Turkish friends have told me that they know nothing of such a word.
Now I find that the Persian word on which it is supposedly based is actually ri:vend rather than ra:vand as I was given to believe, so I am most confused.
All the best,
Simon
| 5 +4 | uşkun |
Ali Bayraktar
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| 3 +2 | ravent |
Nagme Yazgin
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| 4 | ışkın |
Tevfik Turan
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| rewas, rewand |
skaya
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Proposed translations
Türkiye
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uşkun
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ravent
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ışkın
Reference comments
rewas, rewand
9. Abu Mansur discriminates between two kinds of rhubarb, — the
Chinese (rlwand-i stni) and that of Khorasan, adding that the former
is most employed. Accordingly a species of rhubarb (probably Rheum
ribes) must have been indigenous to Persia. Yaqut says that the finest kind grew in the soil of Nlsapur. According to E. Boissier, Rheum ribes occurs near Van and in Agerowdagh in Armenia, on Mount Pir Omar Gudrun in Kurdistan, in the Daena Mountain of eastern Persia, near Persepolis, in the province Aderbeijan in northern Persia, and in the mountains of Baluchistan. There is a general Iranian name for "rhubarb": Middle Persian rewas, New Persian rewas, rewand, riwand (hence Armenian erevant), Kurd riwas, rlbas; Baluci ravaS; Afghan rawa!!;. The Persian name has penetrated in the same form into Arabic.
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