Constellations, plants and Arab poetry in a Medieval Berber text

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Titre
Constellations, plants and Arab poetry in a Medieval Berber text
Créateur
Brugnatelli, Vermondo
Résumé
This paper discusses one paragraph of the Kitāb al-Barbariyya, a medieval Berber commentary on Abū Ġānim’s Mudawwana. The brief note examined is a comment on the answer to a legal question, which mentions the ancient Berber names of a constellation and of a plant, quoting two lines of Arabic poetry. The passage occupies seven lines (f. 126b, ll. 8-14) of the manuscript MS.ARA 1936 found at the Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations (BULAC) of Paris. The Berber words retrieved from this text are Amanar, the name of the constellation of Orion, and tabduɣt, the name of the cotton plant. Moreover, in this ancient text, the word (a)kermus, which in the contemporary Berber languages applies to some specific plants (figs, prickly pears, dates), and which, in this case, seems to mean simply ‘fruit’, which supports a possible etymology from the Greek karpós. A list of Arab authors quoted within the Kitāb al-Barbariyya is added at the end of the paper.
Est une partie de
Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
volume
27
numéro
2
pages
217-232
Date
2023
Langue
eng
doi
10.13135/1825-263X/8240
issn
1825-263X
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Brugnatelli, Vermondo, “Constellations, plants and Arab poetry in a Medieval Berber text”, 2023, bibliographie, consulté le 15 janvier 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/26359

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