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Interesting, in various European languages those tend to be "Turkish": turkey hens (the bird called turkey now), Turkish corn (maize), Turkish beans (long beans

• oldandboring 28d ago
  > maize Which, in turn, originated in Mexico and didn't make its way to Europe until the 1500s.
• idontwantthis 28d ago
  In Panama they say Chino for foreign versions and in Cambodia they say barang which literally means Frankish (via farang from Thailand).
• selcuka 28d ago
  > Turkish corn (maize) And in Turkish maize is called "Mısır", which comes from the country name Egypt (which is also Mısır in Turkish). When Arabs conquered Egypt, they called it "Mishr" (مصر) which literally translates to "country" or "borderland". Maize was originally imported from the Americas, but because the trade route was through Egypt, Turkish people initially called it Egypt Wheat or Egypt Millet. In time, it is started to be called only Mısır/Egypt.
  • sehansen 27d ago
    I wonder what they call maize in Egypt then? According to Kagi Translate, a term for maize that's specific to Egypt is "الذرة الشامية" (al-dhura ash-shāmiyyah) which could be directly translated to "Levantine sorghum". Can anyone with actual knowledge of Egytian Arabic confirm? Also I had the idea that "Maize" might have come from "Mısır", but etymonline claims it comes from the native (Arawakan) name for the plant: mahiz.
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