köken: Uncertain, perhaps from Basque mart- (“blackberry; bramble”), as in martotx (“bramble”), martsuts ~ martuza (“blackberry”). Basque also gave Aragonese martuel, Catalan maduixa (“strawberry”). Similar sense development in Galician amorogo, Portuguese morango (“strawberry”), both from amora (“blackberry; bramble”). Replaced now dialectal (a)borto, from Old Spanish alborco, from Latin arbutus.…
cane apple, the fruit of the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) · an alcoholic spirit made from the distillation of strawberry tree fruit
çekim: çoğul κούμαρα · tamlayan κούμαρου
köken: From Byzantine Greek κούμαρον (koúmaron, “strawberry tree fruit”), from Koine Greek κόμαρον (kómaron, “strawberry tree fruit”) via [o>u], from Ancient Greek κόμαρος (kómaros, “strawberry tree”) (whence also Sicilian cacumbaru) transformed to neutral gender under the semantic influence of other fruit names. See κόμαρος (kómaros) for further etymology, perhaps ultimately Pre-Greek.
köken: Inherited from Middle Armenian *մաթուզ (*matʻuz) attested in the tree name մաթզ-ի (matʻz-i). Further origin uncertain. Confined to the dialects of the South-Western group (Cilicia and Antioch), which corresponds to the range of the tree: see the map. Possibly somehow related to Spanish madroño, Portuguese medronho (“strawberry tree and fruit”), Catalan maduixa (“strawberry”), Basque martsuts,…