Geduar

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Geduar arabice zedoaria.


Apparatus:

zedoaria (ʒe- A f) AB f | ʒedoaria e | cedoaria C


Translation:

Geduar is Arabic for Latin zedoaria {"zedoary"}.


Commentary:

Siggel (1950: 25) mentions two Arabic variants: ﺟﺪﻭﺍﺭ /ğadwār/ = ﺯﺩﻭﺍﺭ /zadwār/ Wz. v. Curcuma Zedoaria (Zingiberac.) Zitwer-Wz. {i.e. "zedoary root"}.


See also: Zeduar

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