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
- bay leaf
Ancestry of “ကရဝေးရွက်”, step by step
ကရဝေးရွက် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese ကရဝေး
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ကရဝေး | name applied to some trees of the Cinnamomum spp, C. inunctum, C. multiflorum, etc |
| 2 | Arabic | كَرَاوِيَا | caraway |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | καρώ | caraway (Carum carvi) |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | κάρη | Homeric and Ionic form of κᾰ́ρᾱ |