bergamote

== French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian bergamotta, deemed a corruption of Ottoman Turkish بك آرمودی (beg armudu, literally “a lord's pear”), denoting originally a fattish kind of pear, whereafter the European word developed the sense of a fruit of a certain citrus cultivar in the late 17th century. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɛʁ.ɡa.mɔt/ === Noun === bergamote f (plural bergamotes) bergamot, a pear cultivar bergamot, a citrus cultivar the scent of such a citrus used in perfumery a bonbon treated with such a perfume ==== Descendants ==== → Arabic: بَرْغَمُوت (barḡamūt) → English: bergamot → German: Bergamotte → Ottoman Turkish: برغموت (bergamot), برعموت (bergamot) Turkish: bergamot → Ukrainian: бергамо́т (berhamót) === Further reading === Meyer, Gustav (1893), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 28 “bergamote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012