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Comes from Arabic
قِرْمِزِيّ
qirmizī
“the color of kermes (a dye insect)”«del color del quermes (insecto tintóreo)»
In Andalusi Arabic: قَرْمَزِيّ qarmazī
Arabic today says
قِرْمِزِيّ
qirmizī
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
The qirmiz is an insect that yielded red dye (from Sanskrit kṛmi, "worm"). The ending -í is the Arabic nisba ending of adjectives, as in marroquí (Moroccan) or andalusí.El qirmiz es un insecto del que se sacaba el tinte rojo (del sánscrito kṛmi, «gusano»). La terminación -í es la nisba árabe de los adjetivos, como en marroquí o andalusí.
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