蒜

Glyph origin
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Etymology
Matisoff considers this to be derived from, but more likely this may be a plant imported from the in the – era. The relatively late attestation and the earlier form of attest to the latter theory.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. The Old Chinese reconstruction was revised to a *-or rhyme in the Baxter–Sagart system, akin to its homophone. Hence compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, as well as 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Either way this word is cognate with the second syllable of 🇨🇬,.

Definitions

 * 1) garlic

Etymology 1
Origin. There are two leading theories.


 * Deriving ultimately from some compound and shift of + . Possible progression:


 * Deriving as a shift in meaning from Buddhist term . Apparently garlic was seen as stimulating, and as such it was a forbidden food and monks would have to forbear from eating it, possibly giving rise to use of the term as a.

Noun

 * 1)  garlic

Etymology 2
From, from. First attested in the  of 712.

Noun

 * 1)  allium

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) garlic

Noun

 * 1) garlic

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) garlic