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Yiddish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بامیه (bamya), possibly via Russian ба́мия (bámija) or Belarusian and Ukrainian ба́мія (bámija).
Pronunciation
Noun
באַמיע • (bamye) f
- (botany) okra, Abelmoschus esculentus
References
- Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “okra”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN