Where does “artichoke” come from?

Artichoke comes from Italian articiocco, from Provençal archichaut, from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Arabic خرشوف or خُرْشُوف.

artichoke (English): A plant related to the thistle with enlarged...

Definitions

  1. A plant related to the thistle with enlarged...

Ancestry of “artichoke”, step by step

artichoke traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Arabic خرشوف

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicخرشوفartichoke
2Akkadian𒅈𒋢𒌒𒁍a type of cereal with a braid appearance; an...

via Lombard articioch

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lombardarticioch—

Words derived from “artichoke”

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