alcarchofa

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ẖaršúf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf).[1] Attested 1443.[2]

Noun

alcarchofa f (plural alcarchofas)

  1. artichoke

Descendants

  • Spanish: alcachofa
    • Tagalog: alkatsopas
  • Occitan: artichaut [3][4]

References

  1. alcarchofa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  2. Annales de la Faculté des lettres de Bordeaux et des universités du midi (in French), volume 4, Bière, 1957
  3. Elcock, W. D. (1960) The Romance Languages, page 282: "Borrowed directly from the Qairawān–Sicily region, without the article, the same Arabic word appears in Italian as carciofo; the Spanish form penetrated, however, into Provence, where it became archichaut, arquichaut, and thence into northern Italy as articiocco".
  4. artichaut in Dicod'oc
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