# أنبج
## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* عَنْبَة (ʕanba), عَنْبَا (ʕanbā), ענבא (ʕanbā) — later

### Etymology

Via Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾmbk' /⁠ambag⁠/, “*mango; a preserve, conserve”). The alternative form عَنْبَة (ʕanba) / عَْنْبَا (ʕanbā) is from Neo-Persian انبه (anba) as well as directly via Apabhraṃśa from Sanskrit आम्र (āmra, “mango”). Later again borrowed from modern Indo-Aryan languages into the dialects, as from Marathi the Iraqi Arabic عَمْبَة (ʕamba, “mango pickle mash”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔam.bad͡ʒ/, /ʔam.bid͡ʒ/

### Noun

أَنْبَج or أَنْبِج • (ʔanbaj or ʔanbij) m
* mango (tree and fruit)
    Synonym: مَنْجَا (mangā)
       أَنْبَج (ʔanbaj)
** a. 957, آبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الإصطخري, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, كتاب مسالك الممالك وهو معول على كتاب صور الأقاليم [kitāb masālik al-mamālik wa-huwa muʿawwal ʿalā kitāb ṣuwar al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 1)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1870, page 173, line 11 seq.:
** a. 957, آبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الإصطخري, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, كتاب مسالك الممالك وهو معول على كتاب صور الأقاليم [kitāb masālik al-mamālik wa-huwa muʿawwal ʿalā kitāb ṣuwar al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 1)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1870, page 176, line 12 seq.:
** 977, أبو القاسم بن حوقل, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, كتاب مسالك والممالك [kitāb masālik wa-l-mamālik] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 2)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1873, page 228, line 13:
** a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 482, line 7:
       عَنْبَا (ʕanbā)
** 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎, volume II, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1854, page 185, line 6:
       عَنْبَة (ʕanba)
** 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎, volume III, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1855, page 125, line 2 a fine:
** 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎, volume IV, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1858, page 229, line 1:
       ענבא (ʕanbā)
** 2018, Elizabeth Lambourn, Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 256 line 22:נהׄ גחאל ענבא5 giḥāl ʕanbā5 waterskins of mango
* (mostly in the form أَنْبِجَات (ʔanbijāt)) medical confections, preserves
    Synonyms: مُرَبًّى (murabban), تَطْلِيّ (taṭliyy), رِيصَال (rīṣāl)
    Coordinate terms: عُشَّار (ʕuššār), مُخَلَّل (muḵallal), طُرْشِيّ (ṭuršiyy), كَبِيس (kabīs)
** 850–861, علي بن سهل ربن الطبري [ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī], edited by Oliver Kahl, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī’s Health Regimen or “Book of the Pearl” كتاب اللؤلؤة (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 115), Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →ISBN, the heading before § 207, page 138:

#### Descendants

* → Middle Armenian: ամպաճ (ampač), անպաճ (anpač), անապաճ (anapač)

### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “أنبج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 179a
* Michael Jan de Goeje, editor (1879), Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad part. I–III (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 7)‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1879, page 181