aubergine: [18] Etymologically, the aubergine is the ‘anti-fart vegetable’. That was the meaning of its ultimate source, Sanskrit vātinganah, so named because it did not produce intestinal gas. This was borrowed into Persian as bādingān, and reached Arabic as (with the definite article al) al-bādindjān. It then made its way with the Moors into the Iberian peninsula: here it produced Portuguese beringela (source of brinjal [18], an Indian and African English term for ‘aubergine’) and, with the definite article retained, Catalan alberginia.
French turned this into aubergine and passed it on to English. In British English it has gradually replaced the earlier eggplant, named after the vegetable’s shape, which American English has retained.
aubergine (n.)
"eggplant," 1794, from French aubergine, "fruit of the eggplant" (Solanum esculentum), diminutive of auberge "a kind of peach," variant of alberge, from Spanish alberchigo "apricot" [OED]. Klein derives the French word from Catalan alberginera, from Arabic al-badinjan "the eggplant," from Persian badin-gan, from Sanskrit vatigagama. As a color like that of the eggplant fruit, it is attested from 1895.
实用例句
1. Disease is disgruntled , resemble basking in damp - dry fade aubergine.
病怏怏的, 像晒半干的蔫茄子.
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2. Cucumber, chilli, aubergine - this is a real vegetable treasure trove.
黄瓜, 辣椒, 茄子,简直就是地三鲜了.
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3. Because say I have two, an aubergine, one falls revive.
因说我有两名, 一名茄子, 一名落苏.
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4. Homemade stracci pasta with spicy Italian sausage, aubergine.
辣香肠, 茄子,黑橄榄,西红柿,罗素叶酱.
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5. Aubergine consciousness double name, hide in water.
