alizari

English

Etymology

From French alizari (“madder root (commercial name)”), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).

Noun

alizari (countable and uncountable, plural alizaris)

1. (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

• alizarin

 

References

• “alizari”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).

Noun

alizari m (plural alizaris)

1. alizari

Further reading

• “alizari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.