The story
- Ottoman Turkish · derived fromآلاجهری
- Greek · derived fromαλιζάρι“madder”
- French · borrowed fromalizari“madder root (commercial name)”
- English todayalizari
From French alizari (“madder root (commercial name)”), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.