قرنابیت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قنبیط (kunnebit)

Etymology

From Arabic قَرْنَبِيط (qarnabīṭ).

Noun

قرنابیت • (karnabit)

1. cauliflower
2. broccoli

Descendants

• Turkish: karnabit
• → Albanian: karnabit
• → Armenian: կառնապիթ (kaṙnapitʻ)
• → Bulgarian: карнаби́т (karnabít)
• → Greek: καρναμπίτι (karnampíti), καρναμπίκι (karnampíki), κουνουπίδι (kounoupídi) (see there for further descendants)
• → Northern Kurdish: kárnabit

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرنابیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1448