alcarchofa
Old Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ḵaršūf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf).[1] Attested 1443.[2]
Noun
[edit]alcarchofa f (plural alcarchofas)
Descendants
[edit]- Spanish: alcachofa
- → Basque: alkatxofa
- → Tagalog: alkatsopas
- → Occitan: artichaut [3][4]
- → French: artichaut
- → Vietnamese: atisô
- → Italian (northern Italy): articiocco (see there for further descendants)
- → French: artichaut
References
[edit]- ^ “alcarchofa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- ^ Annales de la Faculté des lettres de Bordeaux et des universités du midi[1] (in French), volume 4, Bière, 1957
- ^ Elcock, W. D. (1960) The Romance Languages[2], 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".
- ^ artichaut in Dicod'oc