طبشورة

From Persian تباشیر‎ (“chalk, clay, plaster; sugar from bamboo”), from Hindustani: tabāśīr (tabasheer; bamboo manna) Urdu تباشیر‎ / Hindi तबाशीर, ultimately from Sanskrit त्वक्षीर (tvakṣīra, “white substance from bamboo”, literally “bark milk”); widely exported by Arabs in the medieval period for medicinal usage.

• IPA^(key): /tˤab.ʃuː.ra/

طَبْشُورَة • (ṭabšūra) f (singulative, collective طَبْشُور‎ m (ṭabšūr), plural طَبَاشِير‎ (ṭabāšīr))

1. a chalk

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• Wehr, Hans (1979), “طبشورة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN