ܫܗܒܠܘܛ šhblwṭ oak
Calque: ܒܠܘܛ ܡܠܟܐ blwṭ mlkʾ
MP šāhbalūt [šhblwt'] chestnut (CPD 79); NP šāhbal(l)ūṭ lit. royal oak; a chestnut (Steingass 726); blwṭ mlkʾ is a structural calque, with the inversion of the two components, in accordance with the Syr. syntactic rules; it seems a particular case of imperfect calque: both the lexemes and the syntactic sequence are Semitic, but the model is a Persian compound: see § 9.2 ● šhblwṭ Med 578, 17; BB 395, 21; 493, 8; blwṭ mlkʾ Bh chr 526, 6; BB 395, 20; EN 50, 53; Löw 73 ◆ LS 76a, 760a