Words that come from Persian “لیمو”

75 words across 30 languages descend from Persian لیمو — including lemon, lemongrass, lemony, limoncello, lemonwood, avgolemono, lemonlike, lemonish.

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English (16)

Italian (9)

Swahili (5)

Greek (4)

Portuguese (4)

Arabic (3)

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Spanish (3)

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Norman (2)

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Romanian (2)

Andalusian Arabic (2)

Korean (1)

Japanese (1)

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Turkish (1)

Indonesian (1)

Middle French (1)

Venetian (1)

Georgian (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

Persian (1)

Kikuyu (1)

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Taos (1)

Chichewa (1)

Malay (1)

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