تَرَنْجُبِينٌ
Root: ترنجبين
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تَرَنْجُبِينٌ
and تَرَنْجَبِينٌ and تُرَنْجَبِينٌ [thus variously written, in the last manner in the TA, and there said to be “ with damm; ” from the Persian تَرَنْگُبِينْ; A kind of manna; the manna of the thorny plant called by the Arabs the
حَاج, and hence by European botanists “ alhagi: ” accord. to Dr. Royle , it is a sweetish juice which exudes from the alhagi maurorum, concretes into small granular masses, and is usually distinguished by the name of Persian manna: he also states that the alhagi maurorum and another species, alhagi desertorum, are ‘ called in Mesopotamia “ agool, ” according to some authorities, while by others this is thought to be the name of another plant: ’ by “ agool ” is meant عَاقُول, q. v.:] a kind of dew (طَلٌّ), that falls mostly in Khurásán and in Ma-waráli-n-nahr, and, in our country, mostly upon the
حاج: the best thereof is that which is fresh, or moist, and white: the مَنّ [or manna] mentioned in the Kur-án [ii. 54]. [See also “ Ibn Baithar ” , vol. i. p. 207.]
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