métel

See also: metel, Metel, Mętel, mętel, and metél

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَوْز مَاثِل (jawz māṯil).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me.tɛl/
Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

métel f (plural métels)

(botany) angel's trumpet (Datura metel)

Descendants

→ Italian: metella

Further reading

métel on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (metelle)
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “māṯil”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 19: Orientalia, page 123

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