gingembre
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French gingembre, from Medieval Latin gingiber, zingeber, from Latin zingiberī, from Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis), from Sauraseni Prakrit सिङ्गबेर (siṅgabera), from Sanskrit शृङ्गवेर (śṛṅgavera).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒɛ̃.ʒɑ̃bʁ/
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Further reading
- “gingembre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- gengembre
- genger
- gengevere
- gengibre
- gengivre
- genguivre
- gengynbre
- gigimbre
- giginbre
- gingebra
- gingebre
- gingefre
- gingenbre
- gingenre
- gingerue
- gingevere
- gingevre
- gingiber
- gingimbre
- gingivere
- gingivre
- ginguivre
- gingure
- gingyvere
- gingyvre
- ginzibre
- gynbre
- gyngefere
- gyngembre
- gynger
- gyngere
- gyngibre
- gyngivre
- gyngre
- gyngure
- gyngybre
- gyngyver
- gyngyvere
- jugebre
- zinchivere
- zingiber
- zinzembre
Noun
gingembre m (oblique plural gingembres, nominative singular gingembres, nominative plural gingembre)
Descendants
- French: gingembre
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (gingembre, supplement)
- gingembre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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