Plants with Arabic Names
carvi
الكَرَاوِيا
Carum carvi
Its seeds are counted among the spices and taken as a remedy. In its scientific name, Carum carvi, the second word, carvi, is Arabic karāwiyā carried by medieval Latin; it also gave French carvi and English caraway. The word itself is older than Arabic.
- Source of the name
- From an Arabic word
- From the Arabic word
- karāwiyā
- The word in European languages
- carvi
- Genus
- Carum
- Species shown
- Carum carvi
«قال ديسقوريدوس: الكَرَاوِيا بِزْرُ نباتٍ معروف، تُشبه أغصانُه وورقُه بالرِّجْلة.»
Wadghiri (1/363) dates French carvi to 1360 (caroi in 1256, chervis in 1538), through medieval Latin; the word is "Persian, Arabised, and some say the Persian was itself taken from Greek".
Wiktionary traces English caraway to medieval Latin carui, from Arabic karāwiyā, via Aramaic from Greek káron; French carvi is from medieval Latin carvi, from Arabic.
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Sources
- ابن سينا، القانون في الطبّ ١/٥٢٤
- عبد العلي الودغيري، العربيّات المغتربات ١/٣٦٣
- Wiktionary: caraway
- Wiktionary: carvi
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