limón
lemonfruto ácido de color amarillo
Comes from Arabic
لَيْمُون
laymūn
“the lemon”«el limón»
Arabic today says
لَيْمُون
laymūn
And it still does
The article
It came in without the article.
Arabic itself had taken it from Persian.
The story
Arabic laymūn comes from Persian līmū. The diphthong ay narrowed to i, giving limón — almost the same as in Arabic today.El árabe laymūn viene del persa līmū. El diptongo ay se cerró en i, y así salió limón, casi igual que hoy en árabe.
In a sentence
Echa un poco de limón al pescado.
Squeeze a little lemon over the fish.
اِعْصِرْ قَلِيلًا مِنَ اللَّيْمُونِ عَلَى السَّمَك.
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