alizari
English edit
Etymology edit
From French alizari (“madder root (commercial name)”), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).
Noun edit
alizari (countable and uncountable, plural alizaris)
- (archaic) The madder of the Levant; wild madder (Rubia peregrina).
- 1849, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture:
- the able Holland merchants dispersed it in all the markets of Europe , after they had mixed it with the alizaris of Levant
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “alizari”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French edit
Etymology edit
From Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).
Noun edit
alizari m (plural alizaris)
Further reading edit
- “alizari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.