tagarnina

Catalan

tagarnina (Scolymus hispanicus)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tagarnina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tə.ɣərˈni.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ta.ɣaɾˈni.na]

Noun

tagarnina f (plural tagarnines)

1. common golden thistle (Scolymus hispanicus)
2. (figurative) cheap cigar

Further reading

• “tagarnina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Tagarnina (Scolymus hispanicus)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tagarnina.

Noun

tagarnina f (plural tagarninas)

1. common golden thistle (Scolymus hispanicus)
2. (figurative) cheap cigar

Spanish

Potaje de garbanzos con tagarninas

Etymology

Borrowed during the times of Arab Spain from Berber, found in Kabyle lqeṛnun (collective), taqeṛnunt (singulative), a form which has been brought into Afroasiatic triconsonantal root morphology from Medieval Latin carlina, cardina, carduina, reinvention of carduus +‎ -īna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɡaɾˈnina/ [t̪a.ɣ̞aɾˈni.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ta‧gar‧ni‧na

Noun

tagarnina f (plural tagarninas)

1. common golden thistle (Scolymus hispanicus)
2. (figurative) cheap cigar

Descendants

• → Catalan: tagarnina
• → Galician: tagarnina

Further reading

•  “tagarnina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014, inexact identification
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 508, inexact identification with etymological fallacy as Carlina vulgaris and derivation, carried on from yore, from dubious “Andalusi Arabic” **taqarnína (which is actually recorded, but not even from al-Andalus, as قَرْنِينَة (qarnīna)) and this via Berber **taqərnina from unnecessary “Andalusi Romance” *KARLÍNA, but this chain for a term attested in Algerian Berber seems unreasonable.
• tagarnina on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es