melanzana

== Italian == === Alternative forms === melenzana (archaic, dialectal) === Etymology === From Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from now archaic Persian بادنگان (bâdengân), from Sanskrit भण्डाकी (bhaṇḍākī) or वातिगगम (vātigagama, “eggplant, aubergine”), reshaped under the influence of mela (“apple”). Compare Greek μελιτζάνα (melitzána), Sicilian milinciana and Medieval Latin mēlongēna. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /me.lanˈd͡za.na/, /me.lanˈt͡sa.na/ Rhymes: -ana Hyphenation: me‧lan‧zà‧na === Noun === melanzana f (plural melanzane) aubergine/eggplant (US, Italian-American slang) dummy (as though “eggplant-head”) Synonym: (Central Italy, rare) petonciano ==== Descendants ==== → Byzantine Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána) Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána) → Austrian German: Melanzani → Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána) → Macedonian: малиџано (malidžano) → English: malidzano → Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic script: меланцана Latin script: melancana → Slovene: melancȃna → Tigrinya: መለንዛና (mälänzana) === Further reading === melanzana on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it