Talk:بامية

Etymology
No, I can’t do better. I have searched multiple times for its origin, and I have found nothing at all except reading somewhere once this vague claim (and latter not remembering where, but I know it wasn’t more substantiated anyway). It fits the plant’s distribution however, which wandered in earliest history there to the North. might know more. Compare the Sudanese coordinate term  which has the same word in Nobiin. Fay Freak (talk) 09:41, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah well; I will keep my eyes and ears open for a comparandum. Shouldn't that entry have the L2 header 'Sudanese Arabic'? —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 19:16, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * It can have both, it appears well in Fuṣḥā texts. That’s the check I usually make, if it is acceptable in both spheres. Mostly for cooking terms there is little a barrier; also for plant names. Fay Freak (talk) 21:36, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Having explained such a more peripheral plant as, one can expand on the forms of , and thus probably definitely either solve the etymology with forms similar enough to the Arabic or outrule an Indian connection. Fay Freak (talk) 02:16, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * There is now a descendants tree at . Although there are no intermediate forms, there appears to be no relation between the Arabic term and the Sanskrit term plus its descendants. The only Indo-Aryan term that resembles the Arabic term appears to be . Kutchkutch (talk) 10:39, 20 February 2021 (UTC)