aubergine

eggplant; aubergine; a French female traffic warden (from the colour of their uniforms; more recently pervenche)

Borrowed from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the eggplant”), from Classical Persian بَادِنْگَان (bādingān), from بَاتِنْگَان (bātingān), from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa, “eggplant”), from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV.