alcarchofa

Old Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

alcarchofa f (plural alcarchofas)

  1. artichoke

Descendants

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

References

  1. ^ “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], 10 December 2024
  2. ^ Annales de la Faculté des lettres de Bordeaux et des universités du midi‎[1] (in French), volume 4, Bière, 1957
  3. ^ 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".
  4. ^ artichaut in Dicod'oc
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