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Old Spanish
Etymology
From Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ẖaršúf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf).[1] Attested 1443.[2]
Noun
alcarchofa f (plural alcarchofas)
- artichoke
Descendants
References
- ^ “alcarchofa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- ^ Annales de la Faculté des lettres de Bordeaux et des universités du midi (in French), volume 4, Bière, 1957
- ^ Elcock, W. D. (1960) The Romance Languages, 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".
- ^ artichaut in Dicod'oc