alcarchofa

Old Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree
Arabic اَلـ (al-)
Andalusian Arabic الـ (al-)
Akkadian 𒅈𒋢𒌒𒁍 (arsuppu)bor.?
Middle Persian xār (hʾl)
Middle Persian čōp (cwp)
Middle Persian *xār-čōpbor.?
Arabic خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf)
Andalusian Arabic خَرْشُوف (ḵaršúf)
Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ḵaršúf)bor.
Old Spanish alcarchofa

    From Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ḵaršūf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf).[1] Attested 1443.[2]

    Noun

    alcarchofa f (plural alcarchofas)

    1. artichoke

    Descendants

    • Spanish: alcachofa
      • → Basque: alkatxofa
      • → Tagalog: alkatsopas
    • → Occitan: artichaut [3][4]

    References

    1. ^ “alcarchofa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
    2. ^ Annales de la Faculté des lettres de Bordeaux et des universités du midi‎[1] (in French), volume 4, Bière, 1957
    3. ^ Elcock, W. D. (1960), The Romance Languages‎[2], page 282: "Borrowed directly from the Qairawān–Sicily region, without the article, the same Arabic word appears in Italian as carciofo; the Spanish form penetrated, however, into Provence, where it became archichaut, arquichaut, and thence into northern Italy as articiocco".
    4. ^ artichaut in Dicod'oc
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