English
malunggay
Malunggay comes from Malay merunggai ‘moringa, drumstick, horseradish tree’, and goes back to Tamil முருங்கை.
- Tamilmodernமுருங்கை‘moringa, drumstick, horseradish tree’
- Malaymodernmerunggai‘moringa, drumstick, horseradish tree’
- Tagalogmodernmalunggay
- Englishearliest quotation 2012same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Tamilmodernமுருங்கை‘moringa, drumstick, horseradish tree’
- Malaymodernmerunggai‘moringa, drumstick, horseradish tree’
- Tagalogmodernmalunggay
- Englishearliest quotation 2012same form
Earliest quotation: 2012, Amy Besa, Chicken Tinola: “[…] Neal, was very sick and debilitated. I asked…”
Every English word from Tamil முருங்கை
Today it means
noun A tree with flavorful and nutritious leaves, the moringa or horseradish tree, Moringa oleifera.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Tamil முருங்கை / malunggay