berendjena

Ladino

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân), earlier بادنگان (bâdengân), an Indo-Aryan borrowing, from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātiga-gama, “eggplant”).

Noun

berendjena f (Hebrew spelling בירינג׳ינה, plural berendjenas)[1]

  1. eggplant; aubergine
    • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎[1], Nur Afakot, page 209:
      Aharon odia las berendjenas, i de kuando lo konosko yo, no ay manera de azérselas komer, a parte ke fritas en muncha azeyte.
      Aharon hates eggplants, and there’s no way to make him eat them when I am acquainted with him, apart from them as fried patties with lots of oil.

References

  1. ^ “berendjena”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim
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