Where does “iarbă grasă” come from?

iarbă grasă (Romanian) comes from Romanian iarbă, from Latin herba, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰreh₁- — to become green, grow; to grow; to green, to grow.

iarbă grasă (Romanian): common purslane (Portulaca oleracea)

Definitions

  1. common purslane (Portulaca oleracea)

Ancestry of “iarbă grasă”, step by step

iarbă grasă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Romanian iarbă

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianiarbăgrass; herb
2Latinherbagrass, herbage; herb; weeds
3Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰreh₁-to become green, grow; to grow; to green, to grow

via Romanian grasă

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniangrasă—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰreh₁- →Every word from Latin herba →Every word from Romanian iarbă →