berengenha

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • bringella
  • *berengela (attested through a surname)

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), borrowed from Classical Persian بَاذِنْگَان (bāzingān), borrowed from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa), from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV.

    Noun

    berengenha f (plural *berengenhas)

    1. aubergine, eggplant
      • 13th century, João de Gaia, [cantiga 1452]; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 1452:
        Eu cõuidey hũ Prelado / A iantar se bẽ me uenha / Diʒel en eſte meꝰ narizeſ / De color de berẽgenha / Uos auedelꝰ alhꝰ ũdes / E matrmiades cõ el̃s
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    Descendants

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