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pomodoro

Mane (Îngilîzî)

tomato

Têgeh

pamîdor

firingî

tomate

bacansor

bacanê sor

تهماته

şamik

Hevwate

Lycopersicon esculentum

pummidoru

Pircarînî

C2
Bi hîfenê ve hatîye girêdan wek
po‧mo‧dò‧ro
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/ˌpo.moˈdɔ.ro/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Univerbation of pomo (“apple”) + d' (“of”) + oro (“gold”), literally “golden apple”. Possibly owing to the fact that the first varieties of tomatoes arriving in Europe and spreading from Spain to Italy and North Africa were yellow. Earliest attestation (of the archaic plural form pomi d'oro) goes back to Matthiolus (1544). A red strain was later developed in Moorish Africa, which came to be known in Italy as pomo dei mori (“apple of the Moors”).

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