köken: Kulturwort of Iranian origin. According to Asatrian, there were probably two forms in late Middle Iranian, *ispanāg (or *ispināg) and (the dialectal) *ispanāx (or *ispināx), yielding Arabized forms إِسْفَنَاج / إِسْفِنَاج (ʔisfanāj / ʔisfināj) and إِسْفَنَاخ / إِسْفِنَاخ (ʔisfanāḵ / ʔisfināḵ), which were popularized in Persian and Arabic, respectively (alternative forms with پ (p) are directly…
من سپاناخ تو با هرچم پزی یا ترشبا یا که شیرین میسزی
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek σπινάκιον (spinákion), σπανάκιν (spanákin), σπινάκι (spináki), ultimately from Classical Persian اسپناخ (ispanāx) see more there.
köken: The plant was introduced to Japan in the 16th century from China. A number of Japanese sources state that the term 菠薐 (hōren) had previously been borrowed from Middle Chinese 菠薐 to refer vaguely to Persia or Nepal. The spinach plant did likely originate in the area of ancient Persia, but the Chinese term itself means spinach, not Nepal or Persia or any other place name. The plant was introduced…
köken: First attested in the Beonyeok nogeoldae (飜譯老乞大 / 번역노걸대), 1517, as Middle Korean 시근〮ᄎᆡ〯 (Yale: sìkúnchǒy). Borrowed from Chinese 赤根菜 (chìgēncài, literally “red-rooted vegetable”), probably (given other Chinese borrowings directly into Middle Korean) specifically from Early Mandarin 赤根菜 (EM *tʂʰiᴿkəntsʰajᴰ).
spinach (any plant of the genus Spinacia) · spinach (edible leaves of this plant)
çekim: tamlayan szpinaku
eş: szpinak warzywny
köken: Perhaps borrowed from Czech špinák, from Medieval Latin spinachium, spinacia, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Persian اسپناخ (espanâx).
köken: Borrowed from Swedish spinat (modern Swedish spenat), from German Spinat, from Italian spinacio, from Spanish espinaca, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Middle Persian (see Persian اسفناج (esfanâj, esfenâj)).