köken: Inherited from Latin palumbus (“wood-pigeon, ringdove”), palumbes, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pal-wo (“dark-colored, gray”). The sense of "maize" or "corn" developed probably due to the similarity in appearance of a corn cob to the bird (a similar development occurred in Bulgarian or was calqued: гълъб (gǎlǎb, “dove”) and гълъби (gǎlǎbi, “corn/maize”). Compare also Spanish and Galician…
köken: Borrowed from either Serbo-Croatian sirak or Slovene sirek, from Italian sorgo, from Latin (granum) syricum (“Syrian grain”). The word-initial consonant became affricated from sz to c. First attested in 1465.
köken: Borrowed from Hungarian cirok, which in turn was borrowed from either from a Southern Slavic language (cf. Slovene sírek or Serbo-Croatian sirak), ultimately from Latin (granum) Syricum (“Syrian grain”).
Etimoloji
Clipping of 唐黍(もろこしきび) (morokoshi kibi), with the shortened reading then re-applied to the entire original kanji compounds 唐黍 and 蜀黍.