Etymology

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Today it means: Behen rubrum or red behen: said in some sources to be Salvia haematodes (now Salvia pratensis subsp. haematodes), but in other sources to be Statice limonium, which is a synonym for Limonium vulgare. Full definition →

Arabic بَهْمَن
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  1. Arabic · derived fromبَهْمَن
  2. English todaybehen

A Medieval Latin transcription of the Arabic بَهْمَن (bahman).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.