köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (Tᵍ) / [Book Pahlavi needed] (hwlmʾk' /xormā/, “date”), possibly from earlier *harmāw. The logogram is from Aramaic 𐡕𐡌𐡓𐡉𐡍 pl (tmryn, “dates”). Compare Parthian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hwlmʾk /xurmāg/) and [Book Pahlavi needed] (Tᵍ /*amrāw/), both forms appeared in Draxt ī Āsūrīg. The former is from Middle Persian. For reading of the latter, compare…
date (the fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel) · date palm, palm tree in general
çekim: çoğul תְּמָרִים
eş: דֶּקֶל
köken: An early borrowing from Aramaic תמרא (tamrā, tamrē, təmārā); cognate with Arabic ثَمَر (ṯamar, “fruit; crops”) and fellow borrowing تَمْر (tamr, “date”).
mountain date palm (Phoenix loureiroi) · date palm (Phoenix dactylifera)
köken: Originally meant mountain date palm native to Southeast Asia (including Vietnam) and China, yet later shifts semantically to mean date palm native to North Africa and Southwest Asia.