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Inherited from Old Spanishajonjolí, aljonjolí, from an ambiguous Andalusian Arabic form, of raised final vowel from Arabicجُلْجُلَان(juljulān, “sesame seed”), or of clipped ending, جُلْجُل(juljul) + -í(nisba), as the descendants of the pomegranate cultivar سَفَرِيّ(safariyy), or rather + -ín(diminutive) in view of Portuguesegergelim(“sesame”), all of which require dissimilation in the second consonant of the Romance form. Instances of metathetic جُنْجُلَال(junjulāl) can also be found today, the last consonant of which would only have undergone haplology after a raise of the vowel before it.
Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869) Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe (in French), 2nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 146
