peanut (Arachis hypogaea) · peanut (edible seed of this plant, which is also used to produce oil and butter)
çekim: çoğul amendoins
eş: jiguba, mancarra
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Tupi-Guarani *manuβi Old Tupi mandubibor. ▲ Portuguese amêndoainflu. Portuguese amendoim Borrowed from Old Tupi mandubi, influenced by amêndoa (“almond”). Doublet of mandubi.
köken: From the taxonomic name Arachis, coined by Linnaeus as an alteration of Ancient Greek ἄραχος (árakhos), an alternative form of ἄρακος (árakos, “chickling vetch”), and subsequently given a Greek-type inflection.
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl (“cocoa bean”), with phonetical influence of alcahuete (“gossip”), hypothetically of Arabic origin (this influence is absent in cacahuate, the variant of the word used in Honduras and Mexico). Note that in Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl might refer to the cocoa bean, with tlālcacahuatl (literally “earth cocoa bean”) probably being the name for the peanut.