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שנף

Calque of Spanish vainilla (“little pod”), derived from Spanish vaina (“pod”). Using a loanword from Arabic سِنْف (sinf, “fruit-case, seedpod”) to reproduce a similar sense, retaining a Semitic form.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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