زنبوع

Etymology
First attested in Ibn al-ʿawwām. Originally treated as a borrowing, but the Berber forms have also been considered Arabisms, then correspondingly the same for the term. Steiger constructs a native origin arguing that the term is progressively sonorized from and is via an intermediate  from, while the form  would be via a  from , also deeming the same term present in 🇨🇬, , ultimately explaining all as from the transparent , vulgarly. Corriente and Aubaile-Sallenave derive it from the well-known term for the rose-apple via its descendant in, , although that wanderwort appears only very recently as and see there for other forms, and the latter author accounts for the difference in the first consonant by mentioning the variation between  and , although this variation probably has its root in Persian.

Noun

 * 1) pomelo ( syn. )