柑仔蜜
Chinese
| tangerine | honey | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (柑仔蜜) |
柑仔 | 蜜 | |
| variant forms | 柑仔密 柑子蜜 甘仔蜜 | ||
Etymology 1
Phono-semantic matching of Tagalog kamatis (“tomato”), from Spanish tomate (“tomato”), from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (Zhang and Xiang, 2016).
Pronunciation
Synonyms
Etymology 2
| tangerine | honey | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (柑仔蜜) |
柑仔 | 蜜 | |
| variant forms | 甘子蜜 | ||
Phono-semantic matching of Malay gambir (“gambier”).
Pronunciation
Noun
柑仔蜜
- (Hokkien, traditional Chinese medicine) gambier (extract derived from the leaves of Uncaria gambir) [from 18th c.]
Synonyms
- 阿仙藥／阿仙药
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.