Etymology

spinach

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Today it means: Any member of species Spinacia oleracea of edible plants, or its leaves. Full definition →

Middle English spinach ← Anglo-Norman spinache ← Old French espinoche
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The story

  1. Classical Persian · derived fromاسپناخ
  2. Arabic · derived fromإِسْفَانَاخ
  3. Old Occitan · derived fromespinarc
  4. Old French · derived fromespinoche
  5. Anglo-Norman · derived fromspinache
  6. Middle English · inherited fromspinach
  7. English todayspinach

From Middle English spinach, from Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old French espinoche, from Old Occitan espinarc, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Classical Persian اسپناخ (ispanāx, ispināx).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.