alizari

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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)

  1. (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)

  1. alizari

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