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Latest comment: 12 days ago by 2kbfloppadisk in topic Removing Turkish etymology
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How you can forget the Origin Region of Bamia? You don’t mentioned Eritrea and Ethiopia? 2003:EC:8F16:B200:D033:3F33:D561:6113 (talk) 13:28, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
Removing Turkish etymology
[edit]@2kbfloppadisk: I removed this:
- According to Sevan Nişanyan, it was loaned into Turkish from Arabic, with the ultimate origin of the word being unknown.
for two reasons:
- The etymology of the dish bamia is the same as that of the vegetable. There is no reason to repeat it here.
- "Bamia" is the name for this dish in many cuisines, and there is no particular reason to mention its Turkish etymology or Persian or Kurdish.... Apparently they all ultimately come from Arabic. Presumably the Balkan names are borred
There are a couple of other issues with this statement:
- There is no reason to mention the author of the dictionary in the main text -- that is what footnotes are for.
- Linking to loanword is overlinking.
The article has other serious issues, but let's start with fixing this. --Macrakis (talk) 23:18, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for clarifying. You can revert my edit if you want, I can't think of an obvious fix to these issues, though, I think that we should include the statement "the ultimate origin of the word 'bamia' is unknown", I believe its relevant context in this case. 2kbfloppadisk (talk) 10:25, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
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