ܢܰܣܛܪܺܝܢܰܓ nsṭryng nasṭrinag rosa Damascena
Allotropes: ܢܣܛܪܝܢܓܣ nsṭryngs; ܢܝܣܪܝܢ nysryn; ܢܣܐܛܣ nsʾṭs (alternative reading of ܐܝܣܐܛܝܣ ʾysʾṭys)
MP *nasrīnag; cf. NP nasrīn a wild rose (Steingass 1400); the formal relationship among the various allotropes is not perfectly clear; probably the Syr. forms with ṭ use this phoneme as a euphonic enlargement in the aim to avoid the cluster /s+r/: see §§ 11.4; 11.5 ● nsʾṭs Duv B 2, 7, 15 (where it is an alternative reading of the sequence ܐܝܣܐܛܝܣ ʾysʾṭys, from Gr. ἱσάτις woad, cf. LS 33b); nsṭryng, nsṭryngs BB 1256, 11; 1167, 10; nysryn BB 519, 10; cf. Löw 276 ◆ LS 433b, 434b; Duval index pers. 227