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From Persian پیاز. Cognate with Urdu پیاز (pyāz)
ފިޔާ • (fiyā)
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- Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “ފިޔާ”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 84