Original text - Arabic - العود القماريCurrent status Original text
Category Word - Science This translation request is "Meaning only".
| العود القماري | | Source language: Arabic
العود القماري | Remarks about the translation | it should be a type of wood |
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5 May 2008 16:00
Last messages | | | | | 8 May 2008 05:01 | | | hmm, i had to research a bit, its a type of a Joss Stick (a wooden rod of incense) that is widely known in china, arab nation, india, turkey and the orient in general... and its from a place or a country called Kumar (not sure where that was but most probably around or in India) not to be mixed with a similar word in Arabic that means gambling, i also found reference to Kumar as in a type of bird that flies over some islands in the Red Sea, thus called the Kumarian Islands... not sure of the English word, i can research a bit to find more about it, but basically:
the Kumarian Incense, would be the best description, and the word (apparently) is popular today in the Arab gulf...
i found references to this word in Sinbad original stories, and some old traveling books of arabia
its been commercially sold as a perfume, here is a photo:
http://data.saudiairlines.com/skysales1/t_productImages/t_220.jpg
heres more about it (in Arabic)
http://www.alriyadh.com/Contents/03-11-2003/Mainpage/SAHA_1894.php | | | 8 May 2008 05:08 | | | it could be "kammar" instead of kumar | | | 13 June 2008 05:51 | | | I think we just say "Kumari (incense)" in English. |
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