阿魏

Etymology
Borrowed from some unspecified language in the.

Attested first in Medieval Chinese, and was reported to have come from the Jia-she-na (< ga-ʑa-na?) (伽闍那) country in Northern India―possibly referring to modern in Afghanistan.

Compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, all meaning “asafoetida” and all possibly derived, ultimately, from 🇨🇬, where is “gum” (cf. Modern 🇨🇬) and the first part.

This term was discussed in detail in Sino-Iranica. points out that the sibilant final in Tocharian B ("Kuchean") matches the tonogenesis of Middle Chinese  from Old Chinese in  <.

Noun

 * 1) asafoetida