Brinjal Etymology
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In India it has in the past been called brinjal a word which comes from the same.
Brinjal etymology. Hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable. From brinjela ultimately from. Etymology of brinjal This etymology says that the India English term derives via French Catalan Spanish Arabic Persian from Sanskrit.
That word had reached Arabic through Persian from the Sanskrit vatimgana which indicates how long it has been cultivated in India. And indeed brinjal comes to Malay from Portuguese. But this aint true.
The story begins somewhere in India near Burma. But this aint true. I personally know a number of people who in the 70s and 80s used the word G for guy and the word OG for old guy.
The vegetable in question is native to southern India where it was originally known as vatinganah in Sanskrit. Before the Sanskrit speakers and even the Dravidian speakers migrated to India it was largely occupied by the Munda peopleRemnants of. Legend holds that this word broken up literally means fart go away.
This in turn came from vatin-gana Sanskrit for something to do with the class that removes the wind-disorder windy humour seemingly something to do with the gaseous effects of eggplant consumption. Turns out that it came to English in the early 1700s from India where the fabric was called sirsakar in Hindi. Ive always wanted to straighten this matter out even though it probably seems insignificant to most people.
In Britain it is usually called an aubergine a name which was borrowed through French and Catalan from its Arabic name al-badinjan. Brinjal Noun An aubergine or eggplant. Brin jal or egg plant Solanum melongena L is one of the most com mon pop u lar veg e ta ble crop grown in al most world wide.
Aubergine n hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable. From Portuguese berinjela from Arabic. In dia is con sid ered to be the cen tre of or i gin of cul ti vated brin jal from where it spread to the other parts of the world Chaudhury and Kalda 2.
Legend holds that this word broken up literally means fart go away. That name was taken from the Persian shir o shakkar which meant milk and sugar in reference to the alternating stripes and textures - the milk stripe is smooth while the sugar stripe is coarse. From India the purple perennial travelled west and became badinjāna Persian and الباذنجان al-badhinjān.
Aubergine brinjal eggplant bush garden egg mad apple Solanum melongena. Sanskrit word is likely of origin from the source that also ultimately gave English aubergine. Hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable.
Eggplant brinjal eggplant bush garden egg mad apple Solanum melongena. In India and Africa another name for aubergine. The vegetable in question is native to southern India where it was originally known as vatinganah in Sanskrit.
According to Ina Lipkowitz PhD the etymology of its northern European name reads like a whos who of early marauders. The French and the British copying the French call eggplants aubergine which is derived from the Sanskrit word vatinganah literally anti-wind vegetable. Fruit of the eggplant Solanum esculentum 1775 from French aubergine from Catalan alberginera showing typical change of al- to au- in French from Arabic al-badinjan the eggplant source also of Spanish alberengena 15c from Persian badin-gan from Sanskrit vatigagama.
From India the purple perennial travelled west and became badinjāna Persian and الباذنجان al-badhinjān.
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