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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Likely related to or the sources of Latin malva, Middle Armenian բաղբակ (baġbak) and Georgian ბალბა (balba). Suggested to be from a Semitic source; compare Hebrew מַלּוּחַ (mallū́aḥ, “saltbush”), Aramaic מַלוּחָא / ܡܲܠܘܼܚܵܐ (mallūḥā, “saltbush”), Arabic مُلَّاح (mullāḥ, “seepweed”), however these are of the Amaranthaceae family instead of the Malvaceae and have been pointed towards without acquaintance with the Armenian and Georgian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.lá.kʰɛː/ → /maˈla.çi/ → /maˈla.çi/
Noun
μαλάχη • (malákhē) f (genitive μαλάχης); first declension
- mallow
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References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մոլոշ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 340b
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31
- Löw, Immanuel (1916) “Schachtelhalm und Schwaden”, in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (in German), volume 19, number 12, columns 353–356
- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 232