Plants with Arabic Names
Averrhoa
الكَرَمْبولا
Averrhoa carambola
The star fruit, whose slices are five-pointed stars, belongs to a genus Linnaeus named Averrhoa in 1753, after Ibn Rushd (d. 1198), the philosopher of Cordoba whom Europe knew as Averroes.
- Source of the name
- Named after a scholar
- Named after
- Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
- Genus
- Averrhoa
- Species shown
- Averrhoa carambola
The path between languagesIbn Rushd → Averroes → Averrhoa (1753)
Wadghiri (1/211) notes that the Grand Robert's date for the French word, 1845, is not accurate: it already appears in the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles edited by Cuvier and others, in the 1816 edition. The genus has two species, the carambola and the bilimbi.
USDA Agricultural Research Service, public domain
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Sources
- Wikipedia: Averrhoa («named after Averroes»)
- Wiktionary: Averrhoa («New Latin, named after Averrhoes»)
- عبد العلي الودغيري، العربيّات المغتربات ١/٢١١
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