köken: Etymology tree Pre-Greek der. Ancient Greek κάκτος (káktos)bor. Latin cactusder. taxonomic name Cactuslbor. Russian ка́ктус (káktus)bor. Azerbaijani kaktus Borrowed from Russian ка́ктус (káktus).
köken: Unknown. Perhaps from Portuguese sabão (“soap”), possibly suffixed with 手 (te, “hand; helper; means of an action”), as cactus stems were used by the Portuguese to remove stains. If this derivation is correct, this would represent a sound shift of sabon te → saboten. The kanji are orthographic borrowing from Chinese 仙人掌 (xiānrénzhǎng) and Chinese 霸王樹 /霸王树 (bàwángshù). First cited to around 1764 as…
köken: Etymology tree Vietnamese xương Vietnamese rồng Vietnamese xương rồng From xương (“bone”) + rồng (“dragon”). Compare Chinese 龍骨花 /龙骨花 (long cốt hoa). In the Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum (1838), it was glossed as species euphorbiæ (“Euphorbia species”).
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