Eggplant

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When if not now?

You also said in some advertising. When if not now, namely in the fall to talk about eggplant!

Yesterday I wanted to boast two eggplant creations, which created the recently after a long examination of a variety of recipes for preparing the famous dishes - imambayalda and Aubergine. (They certainly will write in detail and will add pictures and a little later).

But the thought of cooking and eating eggplant was shifted from wondering where my word is actually derived eggplant. So indulge in impromptu, mini online survey about the etymology of this word resonant with the ultimate ultima so strongly iztreshtyava your head that you can not did not pay due attention.

The birthplace of the plant eggplant or chanting of some places in Bulgaria - eggplant are considered Sri Lanka and South India. Therefore began to search the roots of the word right there in the ancient Indian language - Sanskrit. Sanskrit word for eggplant - vatinganah (vatinganah), literally means "who treats wind / air" (Sanskrit watts of wind or air, so one of the Ayurvedic doshas called wool), ie remedy gases. A Hindi eggplant is brindzhal.

Pesriytsiite take this word and transform it into badingan and Arabs in al bandidzhan. Later, when the Arabs carried eggplant in Spain, Spaniards think paragraph the article is part of the name of vegetables and call it alberginiya. Finally, it izemnyat Frenchmen in aubergine - a word that is used in British English from the 17th century, Americans and Australians call eggplant eggplant, because the oblong shape and pale yellowish color of eggplants which were distributed to them are kind of resembled gasho egg.