çanahoria
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
- çahanoria, çenoria, çinoria
Etymology
Etymology tree
Ancient Greek στᾰφῠλή (stăphŭlḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵr̥yos
Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة (ʔisfanāriyya)
Andalusian Arabic *سَفُنَّارْيَة (*safunnārya)bor.
Old Spanish çanahoria
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic *سَفُنَّارْيَة (*safunnārya), from Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة (ʔisfanāriyya), borrowed from Ancient Greek σταφυλίνη (staphulínē, “carrot”) or ἀγρία (agría, “wild”). Displaced Latin carōta.
Noun
çanahoria f (plural çanahorias)
Descendants
References
- Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “çanahoria”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 93
- “Zanahoria”, in Vocabulario de comercio medieval [Vocabulary of medieval commerce] (in Spanish), Murcia: University of Murcia, 2013–2024
- Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1991), “ZANAHORIA”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), volume VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 822–823