alizari
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French alizari (“madder root (commercial name)”), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).
Noun[edit]
alizari (countable and uncountable, plural alizaris)
- (archaic) The madder of the Levant; wild madder (Rubia peregrina).
- 1849, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture:
- the able Holland merchants dispersed it in all the markets of Europe , after they had mixed it with the alizaris of Levant
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “alizari”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).
Noun[edit]
alizari m (plural alizaris)
Further reading[edit]
- “alizari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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