Brinjal Etymology

From India the purple perennial travelled west and became badinjāna Persian and الباذنجان al-badhinjān. Hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable.

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Brinjal Noun An aubergine or eggplant.

Brinjal etymology. In Britain it is usually called an aubergine a name which was borrowed through French and Catalan from its Arabic name al-badinjan. Legend holds that this word broken up literally means fart go away. And indeed brinjal comes to Malay from Portuguese.

In India and Africa another name for aubergine. Aubergine n hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable. From India the purple perennial travelled west and became badinjāna Persian and الباذنجان al-badhinjān.

The vegetable in question is native to southern India where it was originally known as vatinganah in Sanskrit. 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. 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.

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The French and the British copying the French call eggplants aubergine which is derived from the Sanskrit word vatinganah literally anti-wind vegetable. Posts about brinjal etymology written by Aneela Mirchandani. From Portuguese berinjela from Arabic.

Hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable. 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 brinjal eggplant bush garden egg mad apple Solanum melongena.

Turns out that it came to English in the early 1700s from India where the fabric was called sirsakar in Hindi. 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. Legend holds that this word broken up literally means fart go away.

That word had reached Arabic through Persian from the Sanskrit vatimgana which indicates how long it has been cultivated in India. 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. Forum discussions with the word s brinjal in the.

Ive always wanted to straighten this matter out even though it probably seems insignificant to most people. Etymology of brinjal This etymology says that the India English term derives via French Catalan Spanish Arabic Persian from Sanskrit. Sanskrit word is likely of origin from the source that also ultimately gave English aubergine.

The vegetable in question is native to southern India where it was originally known as vatinganah in Sanskrit. 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. In India it has in the past been called brinjal a word which comes from the same.

Before the Sanskrit speakers and even the Dravidian speakers migrated to India it was largely occupied by the Munda peopleRemnants of. According to Ina Lipkowitz PhD the etymology of its northern European name reads like a whos who of early marauders. Eggplant brinjal eggplant bush garden egg mad apple Solanum melongena.

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