ܣܓܦܣܬܢ sgpstn Cordia sebestana, sebestens, fruit of the Cordia myxa
Allotrope: ܣܦܣܬܐ spstʾ. Reborrowings (or allotropes?): ܣܒܣܘܢܗ sbswnh Cordia myxa; ܣܓܣܒܘܢܗ sgsbwnh Cordia sebestana
MP *sag-pestān, lit. “‘mamelle de chienne’, nom donné sans doute en raison de la forme du fruit” (Gignoux, personal communication), a compound of MP sag dog (CPD 73) and MP pestān breast (CPD 68); NP sag-pistān, sipistān sebestens (Steingass 691; 652; Horn 164); pistān-i sag id. (ibid. 250). — Arab. siǧibistān id. The formal relationship between Syr. sbswnh and sgsbwnh is not clear, but they are surely related to Syr. sgpstn. LS and Duval claim that sbswnh is a loanword from NP, Arab. sibistān, sipistān sebestens (Steingass 652; Dihxudā, s.v.) ● sgpstn BB 377, 19; spstʾ Med 576, 5; 578, 19; sbswnh EN 25, 67; BB 1298, 2; Löw 68; sgsbwnh BB 1300, 22 ◆ LS 459b; 455b; Löw n. 43; PS Suppl. 239; Duval index pers. 220