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English
Etymology
From French alizari (“madder root (commercial name)”), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).
Noun
alizari (countable and uncountable, plural alizaris)
- (archaic) The madder of the Levant; wild madder (Rubia peregrina).
1849, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture:the able Holland merchants dispersed it in all the markets of Europe , after they had mixed it with the alizaris of Levant
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French
Etymology
From Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).
Noun
alizari m (plural alizaris)
- alizari
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