كُرْنُبٌ

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كُرْنُبٌ , with damm; [so in the copies of the K in my hands, and in the O, and so accord. to the TA; but I think that the correct reading is كُرُنْبٌ, as the word is written by Golius, in one place, and by Freytag; although, in the K, by the words “ with damm, ” in the case of a quadriliteral word, is generally meant “ with damm to the first and third letters ”;] and كَرَنْبٌ; but it is commonly pronounced with damm [app. meaning to the first and second letters: كُرُنْب being the name now commonly given to the brassica oleracea, or cabbage; in Greek κράμβη]: the [vegetable also called] سِلْقٌ [properly beet; for which, possibly, cabbage may have been mistaken]: or a species thereof, sweeter and more tender than the قُنَّبِيط; of which the wild kind is bitter; and the quantity of two drachms of its roots, dried and pulverized, mixed with wine (شَرَاب), is a tried antidote against the bite of a viper. It is said, by the botanists, to be a Nabathean word, arabicized.

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