köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćwas Proto-Iranian *Hácwah Proto-Iranian *Hástiš Proto-Iranian *HacwaHastiš Old Median *aspāstišder. Arabic فَصْفَص (faṣfaṣ)bor. Old Spanish alfalfez Spanish alfalfa Inherited from Old Spanish alfalfez, from Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa).
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾspst' /aspast/), from Middle Median *aspast, from Old Median *aspāstiš, from Proto-Iranian *HacwaHastiš (“alfalfa, lucerne”, literally “fodder for horses”).
alfalfa (Medicago sativa) · medick (any plant of the genus Medicago)
çekim: çoğul alfafas
eş: luzerna
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćwas Proto-Iranian *Hácwah Proto-Iranian *Hástiš Proto-Iranian *HacwaHastiš Old Median *aspāstišder. Arabic فَصْفَص (faṣfaṣ)bor. Old Galician-Portuguese alfalfa Portuguese alfafa Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese alfalfa, from Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa).
köken: Borrowed from Aramaic אַסְפַּסְתָּא (ʾaspastā) / ܐܰܣܦܷܣܬܳܐ (ʾaspestā, “lucerne”), from Akkadian 𒊍𒉺𒊍𒋾 (aspastu, “presumably lucerne”), from Old Median *aspāstiš (“lucerne”), from Proto-Iranian *HacwaHastiš (“lucerne”, literally “horse-food”) from Proto-Iranian *Hácwah (“horse”) + Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“related to eating”) + *-tis, the Assyrians having it borrowed when modelling their cavalry…
köken: Borrowed from Russian люце́рна (ljucérna), in turn from German Luzerne or French luzerne, itself from Latin lucerna (“an oil lamp”), from lūceō (“shine, be a light”).
a feast tradition in Georgia, when the tamada chooses a man from the table, who is granted the right to speak right after the tamada and is supposed to elaborate on the toast
çekim: çoğul ალავერდები · tamlayan ალავერდის
köken: Compare Middle Armenian առուոյտ (aṙuoyt, “alfalfa”).