زنبوج

• زَبُّوج‎ (zabbūj), زَغْبَج‎ (zaḡbaj), زَغْبُج‎ (zaḡbuj), زَعْبَج‎ (zaʕbaj)

A Berber borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /zan.buːd͡ʒ/

زَنْبُوج or زُنْبُوج • (zanbūj or zunbūj) m (collective, singulative زَنْبُوجَة‎ f (zanbūja) or زُنْبُوجَة‎ (zunbūja), plural زَنَابِيج‎ (zanābīj))

1. wild olive (Olea europaea subsp. europaea var. sylvestris)
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام‎ [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة‎ [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 8, Art. 1, page 419:

     ‏وَقَالَ مَرْسِيَالُ يُرَكَّبُ ٱلْعِنَبُ فِي ٱلْعِنَبِ وَٱلتُّفَّاحُ فِي ٱلتُّفَّاحِ وَفِي ٱلْكُمَّثْرَى وَٱلزَّيْتُونُ فِي ٱلزَّنْبُوجِ وَٱلْخَوْخُ فِي ٱللَّوْزِ وَفِي ٱلْإِجَّاصِ وَيُرَكَّبُ ٱلْخَوْخُ فِي ٱلْخَوْخِ وَٱلْأُتْرُجُّ فِي ٱلتِّينِ وَفِي ذُكَّارِ ٱلتِّينِ وَفِي ٱلْكُمَّثْرَى ٱنْتَهَى قَوْلُهُ.‎‎

     waqāla marsiyālu yurakkabu l-ʕinabu fī l-ʕinabi wat-tuffāḥu fī t-tuffāḥi wafī l-kummaṯrā waz-zaytūnu fī z-zanbūji wal-ḵawḵu fī l-lawzi wafī l-ʔijjāṣi wayurakkabu l-ḵawḵu fī l-ḵawḵi wal-ʔutrujju fī t-tīni wafī ḏukkāri t-tīni wafī l-kummaṯrā ntahā qawluhu.

     Martialis said that vines can be grafted on vines, apples on apples and pears, olives on wild olives, peaches on almonds and plums, peaches on peaches, and citrons on figs and caprifigs and pears.

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Libyan Arabic: جبوجي‎ (žabbūži)
• Maltese: żebbuġ
• → Galician: zambulho, zambujo
• → Spanish: acebuche, acembuche
• → Portuguese: zambulho, zambulha, zambujo, azambuja, azambujo, azebuche

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “زنبوج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 605