maraj

See also: Maraj

Albanian

Alternative forms

• meraj, marajë, morajë, mërajë

Etymology

Either from:

• *mararja, from Byzantine Greek *μαράθριον (*maráthrion), diminutive of Ancient Greek μάραθρον (márathron), μάραθον (márathon).
• Alternatively, from a Vulgar Latin derivative of the same Ancient Greek word: compare Latin marathrum. Related to Romanian mărar and perhaps to Old Church Slavonic молотрь (molotrĭ, “fennel”).
• A part of a series of loan words from unattested ancient greek dialects labeled as Macedonian because it was akin to the native idiom of the Greek-speaking population in the Argead Kingdom. borrowed as Ancient Macedonian *márathrion (cf Romanian marariu, Ionic márathron; with the Albanian simplification of -dri̯- to -j- reflecting that of earlier *udri̯om to ujë "water").

Noun

maraj m

1. fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

Derived terms

• maraskë

Related terms

• maraq (forms a doublet with this word)

References

• Berneker, Erich (1914) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 73
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “maraj”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 263a
• Meyer, G. (1891) “maraj”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 259
• Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “maraj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 244–245

Esperanto

Adjective

maraj

1. plural of mara