albaricoque
apricotfruta pequeña de color anaranjado
Comes from Arabic
البَرْقُوق
al-barqūq
“the apricot (today: the plum)”«el albaricoque (hoy: la ciruela)»
Arabic today says
مِشْمِش
mishmish
The article
Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.
Arabic itself had taken it from Greek, which took it from Latin.
The story
A round trip: Latin praecoquum, "early-ripening", passed into Greek, then into Arabic as barqūq, and came back to the Peninsula as albaricoque. Today barqūq in Arabic is the plum; the apricot is called mishmish.Viaje de ida y vuelta: el latín praecoquum, «precoz», pasó al griego, al árabe barqūq y volvió a la Península como albaricoque. Hoy barqūq en árabe es la ciruela; el albaricoque se llama mishmish.
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