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ginger

Ginger's name started as a Tamil compound 'ginger-root' (iñci + vēr), became Middle Indic siṅgivera, and reached Greek and Latin with the spice trade; Old English already had gingifer. Westward it is French gingembre, German Ingwer and Spanish jengibre; eastward Arabic zanjabīl, a drink of paradise in the Quran, became Turkish zencefil.

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