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单词 brinjal
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brinjaln.

/ˈbrɪndʒɔːl/
Forms: 1600s berenjaw, 1700s bringela, brinjalle, berenjal, biringal, 1700s–1800s bringal, brinjal, brinjaal, brinjall, brinjaul. Also (from Arabic and Persian) 1600s plural pallingenies, 1700s bedin-janas, 1800s badenjân, badingân.
Etymology: Anglo-Indian adaptation of Portuguese bringella, bringiela, earlier beringela = Spanish berengena, al-berengena, < Arabic (al)-bāðinjān. The latter is < Persian bādin-gān, < Sanskrit vātin-gaṇa, all applied to the same fruit.Few names even of plants exemplify so fully the changes to which a foreign and unintelligible word is liable under the influence of popular etymology and form-association. Cognate with the Spanish alberengena is the French aubergine, dialect albergine, albergaine, albergame, also without the al-, belingèle, and, with m for b, merangène, melongène, botanical Latin melongēna, Italian melanzana, mela insana (= mad apple). All these go back to the Arabic bāðinjān, and ultimately to Sanskrit vātin-gāna, whence also Hindustani baingan, began. The Malay berinjalā, probably from Portuguese, illustrates the Anglo-Indian form (see Devic, and Yule). In the West Indies brinjalle has been further corrupted to brown-jolly. The Sanskrit name is said to mean ‘the class (that removes) the wind-disorder (windy humour)’, a meaning supposed to connect it with vārttāku, another name of the same plant, which is said to have a māruta-nāśin or ‘wind-removing’ effect. (J. T. Platts.)
Anglo-Indian.
The Anglo-Indian name of the fruit of the Eggplant ( Solanum melongena).
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1611 N. Dounton in Purchas Pilgr. I. 298 Diuers sorts of prouisions to wit..Pallingenies, cucumbers.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 104 The Garden..planted with Potatoes, Yawms, Berenjaws, both hot plants.
1789 Seir Mutakherin III. 229 He lived on raw Bringelas, on unripe mangoes, and on raw red pepper.
1789 R. Saunders in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 86 Melons, gourds, brinjals, and cucumbers.
1809 M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India (1813) 24 I saw..two acres covered with brinjaal.
1861 R. Swinhoe Narr. N. China Campaign 1860 374 Sweet Potatoes, brinjalls, ground nuts, and buck wheat.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1070/1 Brinjals..are of the size and form of a goose's egg, and usually of a rich purple colour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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