▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl
sumac, from Ar
summāq ‘sumac’, from Aram
summāq ‘dark red’, from
sᵊmeq ‘to be(come) red’.
▪ Engl
sumac, also
sumach (c.
1300), »preparation of dried, chopped leaves of a plant of the genus
Rhus (used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent), from oFr
sumac (C13), from mLat
sumach, from Ar
summāq, from Syr
summāqā ‘red’. Of the tree itself from 1540s; later applied to a NAmer plant species« –
EtymOnline. – Fr
sumac, (
1256 somac, lC13
sumac), borrowing, perh. via Sp
zumaque (attested from C10 in Lat texts), from Ar
summāq ‘sumac’ –
CNRTL-TLFi. – The word is found also in many other Eur languages, cf. It
sommaco, Span
zumaque, Port
summagre, Rum
sumac, Russ
sumaḫ, Du
smak, Ge
Schmack,
Sumach (Lokotsch1927), as well as in Tu
sumak (1410,
NişanyanSözlüğü_27Sept2022).
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