قرنابیت

قرنابیت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قنبیط‎ (kunnebit)

Etymology

From Arabic قَرْنَبِيط‎ (qarnabīṭ).

Noun

قرنابیت • (karnabit)

1. cauliflower
2. broccoli

Descendants

• Turkish: karnabit
• → Albanian: karnabit
• → Armenian: կառնապիթ (kaṙnapitʿ)
• → Bulgarian: карнаби́т (karnabít)
• → Greek: καρναμπίτι (karnampíti), καρναμπίκι (karnampíki), κουνουπίδι (kounoupídi) (see there for further descendants)
• → Northern Kurdish: kárnabit[1]

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قرنابیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1448

References

1. Stachowski, Stanisław (2004), “Türkische Lehnwörter im kurdischen Wörterbuch von P. Maurizio Garzoni (1787)”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia‎ (in German), volume 9, page 150 of 143–158