Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.549
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.549
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c10.549
**ARTICHOKE**, s. The genealogy of this word appears to be somewhat as follows: The Ar. is *al-harshūf* (perhaps connected with *harash*, 'rough-skinned') or *al-kharshūf*; hence Sp. *alcarchofa* and It. *carcioffo* and *arciocco*, Fr. *artichaut*, Eng. *artichoke*.