Etrog: Difference between revisions

The [[Romanization of Hebrew|romanization of the Hebrew]] as ''etrog'' from [[Sephardi Hebrew]] is widely used. The [[Ashkenazi Hebrew]] pronunciation is ''esrog'' or ''esrig''. It has been [[transliterated]] as ''etrog'' or ''ethrog'' in scholarly works.<ref>[http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter4.html#acid The Citrus Industry] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308005736/http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter4.html#acid |date=March 8, 2008 }}</ref> The Hebrew word is thought to derive from the [[Persian language|Persian]] name for the fruit, ''wādrang'', which first appears in the [[Vendidad]]. {{sfnp | Moster | 2018 | p= 24 }} Related words are Persian ''turunj'' ({{lang|fa|ترنج}}) and Aramaic {{lang|tmr|{{Script/Hebrew|אַתְרוּגָּא‎}}}} ''ʾaṯruggā''.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Jerusalem Dig Uncovers Earliest Evidence of Local Cultivation of Etrogs |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2012-02-02/ty-article/jerusalem-dig-uncovers-earliest-evidence-of-local-cultivation-of-etrogs/0000017f-e3c2-d568-ad7f-f3ebc5440000 |access-date=2022-10-10}}</ref> It has also made its way into [[Arabic]] as {{Script/Arabic|أُتْرُجَّةِ}} ''utrujjah'' notably in a [[hadith]] collected in the ''[[Sahih Muslim]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stetkevych |first1=Suzanne Pinckney |title=Reorientations: Arabic and Persian poetry |date=1994 |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Bloomington, IN |isbn=0-253-35493-5 |pages=131-3131–3}}</ref><ref>[https://sunnah.com/muslim:797a Hadith no. 288], Book 6 of the ''Sahih Muslim'' - via Sunnah.com</ref> A rare Aramaic form, ''etronga'' ({{Script/Hebrew|אתרונגא}}), is significant because it retains the [[alveolar nasal]] sound (as indicated by the ''[[nun (letter)|nun]]'') of ''wādrang'', also observable in the English word '[[Wiktionary:orange|orange]]'.{{sfnp | Moster | 2018 | p= 25 }}

* {{cite book |last=Moster |first=David Z. |year=2018 |title=Etrog: How a Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-73736-2 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-73736-2 |isbn=978-3-319-73735-5}}