Pomegranate, the delicious red fruit, has common names of pomegranate, granada in Spanish and grenade in French. Pomegranate or punica granatum L. belongs to the family punicaceae that has only one genus and other two species.
The Pomegranate Etymology
New York (USA), February 15, 2018
Pomegranate, the delicious red fruit, has common names of pomegranate, granada in Spanish and grenade in French. Pomegranate or punica granatum L. belongs to the family punicaceae that has only one genus and other two species. The other name that is little known is P. protopunica Balf is mainly unique to the island of Socotra.
Though pomegranate has a rich ancient background, it has just some few commonly recognised dialect names. In India, it has several regional names in India. Most of these names are actually variations of Sanskrit words, such as dadima or dalim. In Hindi, it is called anaar and in the Persian, dulim or dulima.
The Spanish call the fruit as granada and the plant as granado. The Germans call it granatapfel and the Dutch granaatappel. Among the Italians, it is known as melogranato, pomo granato, melograno granato or pomo punico.
In Indonesia, pomegranate is known as gangsalan; while in Malaya, people call it delima and in Thailand, tab tim. In Brazilians, Pomegranate is known as roma, romazeira or romeira.
The Quecchi Indian name in Guatemala is granad. In Samoan, the name is limoni. The generic term, punica, was the Roman name for Carthage from where the best pomegranates arrived to Italy.
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