زنبوع

زَنْبُوع (noun)

Etymology: First attested in Ibn al-ʿawwām. Originally treated as a Berber borrowing, but the Berber forms have also been considered Arabisms, then correspondingly the same for the term زَنْبُوج (zanbūj, “olive”). Steiger constructs a native origin arguing that the term is progressively sonorized from زَنْبُوح (zanbūḥ) and is via an intermediate *زُنْحُوب (*zunḥūb) from حُنْزُوب (ḥunzūb, “Emex”), while the form زَنْبَاع (zanbāʕ) would be via a *زِنْبَاح (*zinbāḥ) from حِنْزَاب (ḥinzāb), also deeming the same term present in Catalan alambó, alambor (“bitter orange”), ultimately explaining all as from the transparent حُمَّاض (ḥummāḍ), vulgarly حَمَّاض (ḥammāḍ, “sorrel”). Corriente and Aubaile-Sallenave derive it from the well-known term for the rose-apple via its descendant in Malay jambua, jambuwa, although that wanderwort appears only very recently as بَامْبُوزِيَا (bāmbūziyā) and see there for other forms, and the latter author accounts for the difference in the first consonant by mentioning the variation between جَدْوَار (jadwār) and زَدْوَار (zadwār, “zedoary”), although this variation probably has its root in Persian.

Meaning: pomelo (Citrus grandis syn. Citrus maxima)

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