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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Ziziphus-areva-israel.jpg/220px-Ziziphus-areva-israel.jpg)
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Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic نَبْق (nabq).
Pronunciation
Noun
nabk (plural nabks)
- Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
- 1870, Christian Henry Bateman, editor, The Bible class magazine, volume 10, page 61:
- Now we passed through a grove of palms, with their long bare stems and their feathery tufts lying motionless in the air; now through a forest of acacias and nabks; now along the edge of a deep canal, and then through fields of greenest corn […]
- The edible berry of Ziziphus lotus.