Left
Left arabice rapa que et salgem etiam dicitur.
Apparatus:
Mss. j and p. add the text of the next entry Legumina to the text of this entry.
Left AC jp | Leffo uel leffe B | Lef ms. e | Lefe f
rapa | rappa B
salgem ef | salgen AC p | salgẽ B j
etiam om. f
Translation:
Left is Arabic for Latin rapa {"turnip, rape"} which is also called salgem in Arabic.
Commentary:
Left:
Wehr (1976): ﻟﻔﺕ /lift/, "turnip, Brassica rapa L. (bot.)"; Siggel (1950): ﻟﻔﺕ /luft/, ﻟﻔﻁ lifṭ = ﺳﻠﺠﻢ /salğam/.
Simon’s transcription Left more likely represents the vocalisation /laft/ as found in
- Palacios' extracts from a 11-12th c. Andalusi Muslim botanist, (1943: 192): “374. NABO …” where he quotes this statement: …
ﻟﻔﺖ ... ﺑﺎﻟﻌﺠﻤﻴﺔ ﻧﺎﺑﻪ ﻭﺑﺎﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺔ ﺳﻠﺠﻢ ... ﻭﺑﺎﻼﻨﺪﻟﺴﻴﺔ ﻟﻔﺖ /laft – lift bi-al-ʕağamīya nābh wa bi-alʕarabīya salğam … wa bi-al-andalusīya laft/ “in Romance it is called nabo, in Arabic /salğam/ … and in Andalusi Arabic /laft/”.
N.b. Spanish nabo < Latin napus means “turnip”.
- Also in the Vocabulista glossary, ed. Schiaparelli (1871: 173): ﻟﻔﺔ /lafta/ Napus {nomen unitatis} [[1]]; (1871; 487): ﻟﻔﺕ ﻟﻔﺔ /lafta laft/ NAPUS [[2]].
- de Alcalá (1883: 320), has: Nabo ortaliza {i.e. “garden turnip”} léfte, left {léfte = nomen unitatis} [[3]].
- Karbstein mentions /laftu/ three times (2002: 86): ﻟﻔﺕ /laftu/; (2002: 188): "7) Kohlrübe Brassica rapa L ﻟﻔﺖ ﻭﺳﻠﺠﻢﻋﺠﻤﻴﺔ ﻧﺎﺑﺶ /laftu wa salğum ʕağamīya nābaš/" - which means: '/laftu/ and /salğum/ are in Romance /nābaš/' {i.e. napus}; also (2002: 261): /lafti/.
Cf. also Corriente (1997: 482-3), s.v. *(LFT) II.
salgem:
Wehr (1976): ﺳﻠﺠﻢ /salğam/ "turnip, Brassica rapa L. (bot.); (eg.) rape (Brassica napus; bot.";
Siggel (1950): ﺳﻠﻐﻢ ﺸﻠﺠﻢ ﺳﻠﺠﻢ {not transliterated: /salġam/} /šalğam, salğam/ Brassica … rapa (Crucif.) Raps {i.e. "rape"}.
WilfGunther 18:28, 9 July 2015 (BST)
See also: Rapa, Salgen, Scelgen, Napo
