alizari

From French alizari (“madder root (commercial name)”), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری‎ (ala cehri).

alizari (countable and uncountable, plural alizaris)

1. (archaic) The madder of the Levant; wild madder (Rubia peregrina).
   • 1849, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture:

     the able Holland merchants dispersed it in all the markets of Europe , after they had mixed it with the alizaris of Levant

• alizari in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

From Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری‎ (ala cehri).

alizari m (plural alizaris)

1. alizari

• “alizari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.