berenjena
eggplant, auberginehortaliza de piel morada
Comes from Arabic
بَاذِنْجَانَة
bādhinjāna
“an eggplant”«una berenjena»
Arabic today says
بَاذِنْجَان
bādhinjān
And it still does
The article
It came in without the article.
Arabic itself had taken it from Persian, which took it from Sanskrit.
The story
Arabic took it from Persian bādengān. In al-Andalus dh was pronounced d, and that d ended up as r: bādhinjāna > berenjena.El árabe la tomó del persa bādengān. En al-Andalus la dh se pronunciaba d, y esa d acabó en r: bādhinjāna > berenjena.
In a sentence
Me encanta la berenjena asada.
I love roasted eggplant.
أُحِبُّ البَاذِنْجَانَ المَشْوِيّ.
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