Old Persian. Flora 4:256. DJBA argues that in JBA the word almost always refers specifically to a vineyard as already attested in Neo-Babylonian Akkadian. But note that in the cited geonic passage (TGAs28(1) 192.1.21) the word is used both for an area producing a drink as well as grain. In Syriac, too, ܦܪܕܝܣܐ can be distinguished from ܓܢܬܐ, but whether always as a vineyard or generally an orchard rather than a vegetable garden for the latter, is not clear.