عسقلان

Etymology
The shallot-sense is presumably a, , or , going back to Classical the Romans called the plant after its abundant occurrence around the Palestinian town nicknamed in , also retained in 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 – while the myth persists that the cultivar spread to Western Europe only by the first  –, otherwise Arabs had no reason to call the plant precisely like the Romans.

Noun

 * 1)  shallot (Allium cepa var. aggregatum)