ܫܝܓܪܐ [?] šygrʾ a kind of tree
Allotropes (?): ܫܓܪܐ šgrʾ; ܣܝܓܪܐ sygrʾ; ܫܢܓܪ šngr alkanet, a plant yielding a red dye
It is very doubtful that these allotropes are really allotropes of the same word, and that this Syr. word is of Iranian origin. LS mentions BB 1968, 20, who connects šygrʾ with Arab. šinǧār, ← Pers. šinkār anchusa (Löw no.120), that is, the name of a plant from whose root a red dye was made. Cf. NP šingār melilot, bugloss (Steingass 763); NP, Arab. šinǰār id. (ibid. 762). As regards šngr, LS compares again NP šinkār anchusa, ® Arab. šinǧār: LS hesitantly suggests that šygrʾ may designate the Syagrus, a kind of palm-tree (cf. PS 4137; PS Suppl. 331; 328); the Syagrus is called in Syr. sygrʾ (LS 459b: a tree whose leaves are eaten by ascetics), and this name—according to LS—is formally related to the Syr. verbal root sgr to close, seclude, confine. The meaning suggested by LS is given as certain in PS Suppl., where šygrʾ "Syagrus, a kind of palm-tree; plur. the gums" and šgrʾ (plur.) "the gums" are considered allotropes of the same botanic term. In PS 4137 šygrʾ "arboris magnae species, anchusa tinctoria" is possibly supposed to be an equivalent of šgr, and the form šyngr "anchusa tinctoria" (PS 4141) is also compared ● šygrʾ PO 17, 39, 1; Med 105, 1; 168, 10; šgrʾ Med 175, 5; sygrʾ AS 2, 24, 1; šngr BB 1991, 17 (s.l.); Med 610, 10 f. ◆ LS 756b; 459b; 790b; Duval index pers. 221; PS 4137; 4141; PS Suppl. 331; 328; 334