banana

Borrowed from Italian banana, from Wolof banaana.


klin

From Arabic إِكْلِيل الْجَبَل (ʔiklīl al-jabal).

inh

إِكْلِيل الْجَبَل

iklin (alternative)
iklil (alternative)
inklin (alternative)
klil (alternative)

Salvia rosmarinus
Salvia rosmarinus#Translingual

Rosmarinus officinalis
Rosmarinus officinalis#Translingual

rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus, syn. Rosmarinus officinalis)


qaqoċċ

qaqoċċa (singulative)
qaqoċċiet (paucal)

Borrowed from Sicilian *cacoccia, older variant of cacòcciula, which see. Ultimately from Arabic خَرْشُوف (ḵaršūf).

der

Arabic خَرْشُوف (ḵaršūf)


lampun

lampuna (singulative)
lampuni (plural)
lampunijiet (paucal)


frawla

mt-noun

frawla f (plural frawli, paucal frawliet)


tuffieħ

tuffieħa (singulative)
tuffiħat (paucal)
tuffiħiet (paucal)
toffieħ (alternative)

apple, apples (several fruits; apple as a mass, taste, species)


lanġas

lanġasa (singulative)
lanġasiet (paucal)

From a nasalised variant of Arabic الإجّاص (al-ʔijjāṣ), from إجّاص (ʔijjāṣ) with fused definite article اَل (al-). Compare Algerian Arabic لنجاص (lanjāṣ), Moroccan Arabic لنجاص (langāṣ) or نجاص (ngāṣ), and South Levantine Arabic إنجاص (injāṣ).


larinġ

larinġa (singulative)
larinġiet (paucal)

Probably inherited from Arabic نارَنْج (nāranj, “bitter orange”), from Persian نارنگ (nârang). The -i- seems to be the result of imala and does not appear in any of the relevant Romance cognates. Since bitter oranges were cultivated in Sicily since the Arab reign, inheritance is also historically likely. The initial l- may be due to influence by Sicilian l’arancia, though it could be explained as dissimilation.


frott

Borrowed from Sicilian fruttu or Italian frutto, from Latin fructus.

U qal Alla: “Ħa tnibbet l-art il-ħaxix, ħaxix li jagħmel iż-żerriegħa, siġar li jagħmlu l-frott biż-żerriegħa ġo fih skont għamliethom, fuq l-art.” U hekk sar.

c. 2015, Il-Bibbja : il-Kotba Mqaddsa, 5th edition, Valletta: Ghaqda Biblika Maltija, →OCLC, Il-Ktieb tal-Ġenesi 1:11:

New International Version translation: Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.


ċirasa

Borrowed from Sicilian cirasa, from Vulgar Latin ceresia.


rummien

rummiena (singulative)
rumminiet (paucal)

pomegranate, pomegranates (several fruits; pomegranate as a mass, taste, species)


berquq

berquqa (singulative)
berquqiet (paucal)

From Arabic بَرْقُوق (barqūq), from Classical Syriac ܒܰܪܩܽܘܩܳܐ (barqūqā), from Ancient Greek πραικόκῐον (praikókĭon), from Latin praecox (“overripe”).


tamar

tamra (singulative)
itmra (plural)
tmar (plural)
tamriet (paucal)
tamal (alternative)


qamħ

qamħa (singulative)
qamħtejn (dual)
qmuħ (plural)
qmieħ (plural)
qamħiet (paucal)


tadam

tadama (singulative)
tadamiet (paucal)
tuffieħa t’Adam (alternative)
tuffieħa ta’ Adam (alternative)

Clipping of tuffieħa t’Adam (literally “Adam’s apple”), referring to the fruit of the forbidden tree in paradise. Compare the same in archaic German Paradiesapfel (literally “paradise apple”), whence Austrian German Paradeiser (“tomato”) and equivalent forms in several eastern European languages. The phonetic similarity with English tomato, Spanish tomate is probably coincidental. The Maltese might of course be a folk-etymological alteration of the Spanish word, but the clearly unrelated forms in other languages make this seem less likely. Compare also Italian pomodoro (literally “gold apple”), archaic English love apple.

cog

tomato, tomatoes (several fruits; tomato as a mass, taste, species)


nagħniegħ

From Arabic نَعْناع (naʕnāʕ), from Hurrian.


ħawħ

peach, peaches (several fruits; peach as a mass, taste, species)


dulliegħ

dulliegħa (singulative)
dlielagħ (plural)
dulligħat (paucal)
dolliegħ (alternative)

watermelon (as a mass or species); several watermelons


kurrat

kurrata (singulative)
kurratiet (paucal)
korrat (alternative)


ħafur

From Arabic خَافُور (ḵāfūr). The similarity with German Hafer etc. is coincidental.

inh

Arabic خَافُور (ḵāfūr)


qarabagħli

qarabagħlija (singulative)
qarabagħliet (paucal)

Univerbation of qara’ (“squash, pumpkin”) + bagħli (“unirrigated”).

univerbation

marrow, courgette/zucchini (kind of vegetable)


sfarġel

sfarġla (singulative)
sfarġliet (paucal)


brunġiel

brunġiela (singulative)
brunġiliet (paucal)
brinġiel (alternative)

Etymology tree
Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtVder.
Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa)bor.
Classical Persian بَاذِنْگَان (bāzingān)bor.
Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān)
Maltese brunġiel
From Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān). The word shows a great variety of phonetic alterations among Arabic dialects. The same form as in Maltese appears to underly in Portuguese beringela.

inh

Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān)


bqajla

From Arabic, from the root ب ق ل (b q l). Related to بَقْل (baql, “vegetables, green plants, herbs”). Compare Moroccan Arabic بقولة (baqqūla, “spinach”), Andalusian Arabic رييس البقول (rayīs el-buqūl, “spinach”).


bużbież

bużbieża (singulative)
bużbiżiet (paucal)
busbies (alternative)
besbies (alternative)
biżbież (alternative)


bużbież tal-ġidra

bużbieża tal-ġidra (singulative)
bużbiżiet tal-ġidra (paucal)

Foeniculum vulgare
Foeniculum vulgare#Translingual


bużbież tar-roqba

bużbieża tar-roqba (singulative)
bużbiżiet tar-roqba (paucal)


bettieħ

bettieħa (singulative)
btietaħ (plural)
bettiħat (paucal)
bettiħiet (paucal)
bettiħ (alternative)
bittiħ (alternative)

From Arabic بِطِّيخ (biṭṭīḵ). The etymologically more justified (and prescriptively preferred) spelling bettiħ is very rare in practice since the word is treated as belonging to the common measure C-e-CC-ie-C. (The phonemes /iː/ and /ɪː/ are merged before /ħ/ and /ʔ/.)

inh

Arabic بِطِّيخ (biṭṭīḵ)


qastan

From Arabic قَسْطَن (qasṭan), a variant of كَسْتَنَاء (kastanāʔ), from Ancient Greek κάστανα (kástana).


karfus

karfusa (singulative)
krafes (plural)
karfusiet (paucal)

By back-formation from the plural krafes, from a variant of Arabic كَرَفْس (karafs) reinterpreted as a plural form. Compare Moroccan Arabic كرافس (krāfis, “celery”), Tunisian Arabic كرافس (krāfis, “celery”).


brinġiel

brinġiela (singulative)
brinġiliet (paucal)


sensiela

Pimpinella saxifraga
Pimpinella saxifraga#Translingual


pastard

pastarda (singulative)
pastardiet (paucal)