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Where does “çanahoria” come from?

çanahoria (Old Spanish) comes from Andalusian Arabic سَفُنَّارْيَة, from Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة, from Ancient Greek σταφυλίνη ἀγρία.

Ancestry of “çanahoria”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Andalusian Arabicسَفُنَّارْيَة—
2Arabicإِسْفَنَارِيَّة—
3Ancient Greekσταφυλίνη ἀγρία—
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