Where does “bakłażan” come from?
bakłażan (Polish) comes from Russian баклажа́н, from Ottoman Turkish بادلجان, from Persian بادنجان, from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण, from Proto-Indo-Aryan wātinganas — eggplant; purple.
bakłażan (Polish): aubergine
Ancestry of “bakłażan”, step by step