ARABIC-L: LING: More Carrot Etymologies

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Date: 19 Feb 1999
From: Louis Boumans <louis.boumans at gironet.nl>
Subject: More Carrot Etymologies

In his short note

Emprunts grecs et turcs dans le dialecte arabe de Malte
in: Melanges Marcel Cohen, reunies par David Cohen, 1970, The
Hague/Paris: Mouton, pp.229-31

David Cohen discusses the etymology of Maltese /sfunnaariiya/ and
related Mediterranean words, which he all traces back to Greek
/stafu'linos/, and more in particular to a variant Greek form
/stafinari/ whcih apparently also occurs as a loan word in Coptic. Thus,
David Cohen's etymology ties up neatly with the information cited from
Rosner's 'translation' of
Maimonides' Glossary of Drug Names, no. 73, as reproduced for the list
by (list-member) David.

Cohen further cites many (Western) Arabic and Berber dialectal variants
of the word, and also discusses some other words for "carrot": CA
/jazar/ < Persian /gazar/ ; and refers to another article of his,

Etymologies maghrebines (III), Hesperis, X (1930) p.125

for an etymology of the central and eastern Algerian Arabic word
/zruudiiya/, also mentioned by list-member Kahlaoui Noureddine.

Yours, Louis


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