ܟܫܘܬܐ

Classical Syriac[edit]

Probably from כַּשָׁא / ܟܰܫܳܐ (kašā, “to pile up”) because of the jumbled fashion in which this parasitic plant climbs trees, else from Akkadian 𒃢 (SILA₄ /⁠kasû⁠/), a plant with many small seeds used for spice, fumigation and medicine, just like dodder species. Also Jewish Babylonian Aramaic כְּשׁוּתָא (kəšūṯā), Hebrew כְּשׁוּת (kəšūṯ).

ܟܫܽܘܬܳܐ • (kəšūṯā) f

→ Ancient Greek: καδύτας (kadútas), κασύτας (kasútas)
- → Latin: cassytas, cassythas, cadytas
  - → Translingual: Cassytha
→ Arabic: كُشُوث (kušūṯ), كُشُوت (kušūt), كُشُوثَى (kušūṯā), كُشُوثَاء (kušūṯāʔ), كُشُوتاء (kušūtāʔ), أُكْشُوث (ʔukšūṯ), أُكْشُوت (ʔukšūt)
- → Medieval Latin: cuscūte, cuscūthe, cuscūta, cuscūtha
  - → Translingual: Cuscuta
    - → Turkish: küsküt
  - → Albanian: kuskuta
  - → Catalan: cuscuta, cúscuta
  - → French: cuscute
  - → Greek: κουσκούτα (kouskoúta)
  - → Italian: cuscuta
  - → Portuguese: cuscuta
  - → Spanish: cuscuta
- → Middle Armenian: քշութ (kʻšutʻ), քշուշ (kʻšuš), քշուս (kʻšus), աքշուշ (akʻšuš)

“kšw”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
“kšy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
Löw, Immanuel (1914) “Cuscuta”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete‎^[1] (in German), volume 28, pages 1–14
Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 230–231
Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎^[3] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 453–461