Where does “ကရဝေးရွက်” come from?

ကရဝေးရွက် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ကရဝေး, from Arabic كَرَاوِيَا, from Ancient Greek καρώ, from Ancient Greek κάρη — Homeric and Ionic form of κᾰ́ρᾱ.

ကရဝေးရွက် (Burmese): bay leaf

Definitions

  1. bay leaf

Ancestry of “ကရဝေးရွက်”, step by step

ကရဝေးရွက် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ကရဝေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကရဝေးname applied to some trees of the Cinnamomum spp, C. inunctum, C. multiflorum, etc
2Arabicكَرَاوِيَاcaraway
3Ancient Greekκαρώcaraway (Carum carvi)
4Ancient GreekκάρηHomeric and Ionic form of κᾰ́ρᾱ

via Burmese ရွက်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရွက်sail
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanrwakrat; leaf
Every word from Ancient Greek κάρηEvery word from Ancient Greek καρώEvery word from Arabic كَرَاوِيَا