Etymograph

English

hendibeh

Hendibeh comes from Arabic هِنْدِبَاء ‘dandelion’, and goes back to Aramaic הּנְדְּבָא.

  1. Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEהּנְדְּבָא
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentهِنْدِبَاءhindibāʔ‘dandelion’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1829hendibeh

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEהּנְדְּבָא
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentهِنْدِبَاءhindibāʔ‘dandelion’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1829hendibeh

Earliest quotation: 1829, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants: “In like manner, there can be little doubt that…”

Today it means

noun The common chicory (Cichorium intybus).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Aramaic הּנְדְּבָא / hendibeh