Etymology

sueda

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Today it means: An area with a dense covering of plants of the genus Suaeda, family Amaranthaceae; such plants collectively; seepweed. Full definition →

translingual Suaeda ← Arabic سُوَيْدَاء
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromسُوَيْدَاء“literally ‘little black one’, referring to the black seeds”
  2. translingual · borrowed fromSuaeda
  3. English todaysueda

From translingual Suaeda, from Arabic سُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʔ, “literally ‘little black one’, referring to the black seeds”).

Words from the same roots

Arabicسُوَيْدَاء all →

seepweed

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.