شوفان

Arabic

شُوفَان

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Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܫܘܦܢܐ (šūp̄ānā, “friction”), which comes from the verb ܫܳܦ (šāp̄, “to file, to scrape”) corresponding to the Arabic verb شَافَ (šāfa, “to polish”), as for the handling of the grain removing the husk by rubbing, grating, polishing is characteristic. There is also Hebrew שיפון (šīp̄ōn, “oat; (later) rye”), so that formation is apparently Proto-Northwest Semitic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃuː.faːn/
Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

شُوفَان • (šūfān) m

oat

Declension

Declension of noun شُوفَان (šūfān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	شُوفَان šūfān	الشُّوفَان aš-šūfān	شُوفَان šūfān
Nominative	شُوفَانٌ šūfānun	الشُّوفَانُ aš-šūfānu	شُوفَانُ šūfānu
Accusative	شُوفَانًا šūfānan	الشُّوفَانَ aš-šūfāna	شُوفَانَ šūfāna
Genitive	شُوفَانٍ šūfānin	الشُّوفَانِ aš-šūfāni	شُوفَانِ šūfāni

References

Freytag, Georg (1833) “شوفان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 465
Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎^[2] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 686–690
Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 597