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Rolland2014 summarizes the state of research on the word as follows: »Pour Belot,¹ le mot est d’origine grecque. Pour Rajki,² c’est un emprunt au turc bamya. Pour Nişanyan,³ le turc est un emprunt à l’arabe.« None of these sources are particularly reliable. The Engl gumbo, Fr gombo, which could be akin to bāmiyā etc., are said to go back to Africa, cf. ngombo ‘okra’ in a Central Bantu language, ki-ngombo ‘do.’ in a Bantu language from Angola.

1. Jean-Baptiste Belot, Dictionnaire arabe-français "El-faraïd", Beyrouth 1955. 2. Andras Rajki, Arabic Etymological Dictionary, online. 3. Sevan Nişanyan, Sözlerin Soyağacı, 2001.

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▪ In Tu, the word is attested for the first time in Aḥmed Vefīḳ Paşa’s Luġat-ı ʕOs̱mānī (1876), where it is said to have come from the Sudan and recently have become popular – Nişanyan (24Jul2014).
▪ Engl gumbo may be akin to Ar bām(i)yā (bām(i)yaẗ, pronounced bamya). Its etymology is given by EtymOnline as »1805, from Louisiana Fr, probably ultimately from a Central Bantu dialect (compare Mbundu ngombo ‘okra’).«
▪ Fr gombo: First attested in 1757 as gombaut, 1764 gombo (Jacquin, Observationes botanicae, 2ᵉ part., p. 11 ds Roll, Flore, t. 3, p. 76). Terme des Antilles françaises issu du bantou de région angolaise ki-ngombo – http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/gombo.

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