aru²
Chicahuaxtla Triqui
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish arroz, from Andalusian Arabic الرَّوْز (ar-rawz), from Arabic أَرُزّ (ʾaruzz, “rice”), from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Iranian language.
Noun
aru²
- rice
References
- Good, Claude (1979) Diccionario triqui de Chicahuaxtla: Triqui - Castellano, Castellano - Triqui (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 20) (in Spanish), second edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 11