[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 69, Issue 41

[galefridus at optimum.net]

Thanks for the suggestion! Charles Perry looked up the word for me in in a Persian dictionary -- sudaniyyat actually does mean woodpeckers, but in Persian, not Arabic. And he gave me the name of some Persian resources that I can use for future questions. Since so much of the culinary vocabulary in classical Arabic is derived from Persian, I've found Lane's to be of limited usefulness.

-- Galefridus

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>> The problem is that there isn't a one-to-one correspondence between the order of the entries in the Arabic Taqwim and the Latin Tacuinum manuscripts. Even the Latin manuscripts vary significantly. But when I looked up all the Latin entries for birds and bird flesh, I found nothing that could be interpreted as "[birds] from the south." I even tried working backward from the name of the bird in Latin to its name in Arabic -- no help. And Lane's Lexicon does not indicate that sudaniyyat is used to as a word for any kind of bird.
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>> I'm beginning to think that what I really need for this project is a lexicon of classical culinary Arabic, which may exist, but very likely as an Arabic-Arabic dictionary.
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>> -- Galefridus
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> Have you tried to put the question to Charles Perry? To Nawal Nasrallah, who translated al-Warraq?
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