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The name 'soumak' may plausibly derive from the old town of Shemakja in Azerbaijan, once a major trading centre in the Eastern Caucasus. [1] Other theories include an etymology from Turkish 'sekmek', 'to skip up and down', meaning the process of weaving; or from any of about 35 species of flowering plant in the Anacardiaceae or sumac family, such as dyer's sumach (Cotinus coggygria), used to ...
The word sumac traces its etymology from Old French sumac (13th century), from Mediaeval Latin sumach, from Arabic summāq (سماق), from Syriac summāqa - meaning "red". [10] The generic name Rhus derives from Ancient Greek ῥοῦς ( rhous ), meaning "sumac", of unknown etymology; the suggestion that it is connected with the verb ῥέω ...
Rhus coriaria, commonly called Sicilian sumac, [3] tanner's sumach, [4] or elm-leaved sumach, is a deciduous shrub to small tree in the cashew family Anacardiaceae. It is native to southern Europe and western Asia. [2] The dried fruits are used as a spice, particularly in combination with other spices in the mixture called za'atar.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... It is commonly known as Mysore sumac [2] or Indian sumac [3] (ചിപ്പമരം in ...
The Anacardiaceae, commonly known as the cashew family [1] or sumac family, are a family of flowering plants, including about 83 genera with about 860 known species. [2] Members of the Anacardiaceae bear fruits that are drupes and in some cases produce urushiol , an irritant .
Rhus typhina, the staghorn sumac, [5] is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae, native to eastern North America. It is primarily found in southeastern Canada, the northeastern and midwestern United States, and the Appalachian Mountains, [ 6 ] but it is widely cultivated as an ornamental throughout the temperate world.
Sumac may refer to: Soumak rug (also spelt Soumakh, Sumak, Sumac, or Soumac), a type of weft-wrapped flatwoven Oriental rug; Sumac (band), a 2010s American/Canadian rock band; Sumac, any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera A spice made from the plant Rhus coriaria
Toxicodendron succedaneum, the wax tree, [1] Japanese Hazenoki tree (Sumac or wax tree), sơn in Vietnamese or charão in Portuguese, is a flowering plant species in the genus Toxicodendron found in Asia, although it has been planted elsewhere, most notably Australia and New Zealand.