alizari

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English

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Etymology

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From French alizari (madder root (commercial name)), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, madder), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).

Noun

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alizari (countable and uncountable, plural alizaris)

  1. (archaic) The madder of the Levant; wild madder (Rubia peregrina).
    • 1849, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture:
      the able Holland merchants dispersed it in all the markets of Europe , after they had mixed it with the alizaris of Levant

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French

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Etymology

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From Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, madder), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).

Noun

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alizari m (plural alizaris)

  1. alizari

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