سبانخ

• إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), إِسْفَنَاخ (ʔisfanāḵ), إِسْفَنَاج (ʔisfanāj), إِسْفَانَاج (ʔisfānāj), سَبَانَغ (sabānaḡ), سَبَانَج (sabānaj)

From Middle Persian, see Persian اِسفَناج (esfanâj).

• IPA^(key): /sa.baː.nix/, /sa.baː.nax/

سَبَانِخ or سَبَانَخ • (sabāniḵ or sabānaḵ) m

1. spinach

• Andalusian Arabic: إِسْفِنَاج (isfināj), إِسْبِنَاج (isbināj), إِسْبِنَاخ (isbināḵ)
  • → Aragonese: espinai
  • → Catalan: espinac
  • → Occitan: espinac, espinarc (influenced by french)
  • → Portuguese: espinafre
  • → Spanish: espinaca
    • → Medieval Latin: spinacium, spinachium, spinarchia (influenced by spina (“thorn”))
      • → Byzantine Greek: σπινάκιον (spinákion), σπανάκιν (spanákin), σπινάκι (spináki)
        • Greek: σπανάκι (spanáki), σπανάκιον (spanákion)
          • → Bulgarian: спанак (spanak)
          • → Romanian: spanac
          • → Serbo-Croatian: спанаћ / spanać
      • → Italian: spinacio, spinace (uncommon)
        • → Middle High German: spināt (final -t perhaps influenced by Salat)
          • German: Spinat
            • → Kashubian: szpinat
            • → Russian: шпинат (špinat)
              • → Bashkir: шпинат (şpinat)
            • → Serbo-Croatian: шпинат / špìnāt
            • → Ukrainian: шпина́т (špynát)
      • → Old French: espinoche, espinache, espinarde, espinaces
        • French: épinard, (obsolete) epinart
        • → English: spinach, (obsolete) spinage
        • → Irish: spionáiste
      • → Sicilian: spinacia

• Asbaghi, Asya (2008), “Persian Loanwords”, in Versteegh, Kees, editor, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 581
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “سبانخ”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 22
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “سبانخ”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 623
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “سبانخ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 35

From Arabic سَبَانِخ (sabāniḵ)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsbaːnix/, [ˈsbeːnɪχ]

سبانخ • (sbāniḵ) ?

1. spinach
   • 1954, Hassan El-Hajjé, Le parler arabe de Tripoli‎^[4], page 185:

     w-ḥå̄ṣlǟtä mn əl-ḫəḍåṛ : lūbye, malfūf, sbǟneḫ, baṭå̄ṭå, fūl, ʾarḍi-šawki, banadūṛå, kūsä.

     [وحاصلاتا من الخضر: لوبية، ملفوف، سبانخ، بطاطا، فول، أرضي شوكي، بندورة، كوسا.]

     and their vegetable crops: green beans, cabbages, spinach, potatoes, broad beans, artichokes, tomatoes and courgettes.