Did Eve give Adam the apple or the banana? What does research say

At the behest of Eve, Adam ate the apple, the fruit of knowledge. Was it really an apple or something else. Interesting things have been told about this in a research.

Adam and Eve are called the parents of the human race in the Bible . It is said that Adam ate the fruit of knowledge at the behest of Eve. This fruit was apple . American academic Judith Schun has done research about this in her book 'The Delightful History of Food Language'. They say that the fruit eaten by Adam and Eve was not named in Genesis. At the same time, some Jewish commentators believed that it was a fig.

Did Eve give Adam an apple or a banana?

He further writes that apple also has two different meanings. One is the round fruit whose name we are all familiar with, and the other is the fruit that Adam and Eve ate in the Garden of Eden. In the 13th century a translator of the Spanish-Jewish philosopher Maimonides said it was a banana. At the same time, the early theologians writing in Latin called it an apple. There is actually a Latin word behind it. The Latin word for apple is malum, which has a long a. On the other hand, the meaning of Malam with small A is evil.

Where did the word banana come from in English?

The word banana came into English through Portuguese or Spanish. Wolof came into English from an Atlantic-Congo language or branch of the Niger-Congo family. The botanical name of the fruit is Musa sapientum, which means 'fruit of the elders'. Banana refers to someone important who was originally 'the top comedian in a vaudeville show'.

What is the secret of orange colour?

Orange is certainly one of the few words in the language that does not have a definite definition. It also comes to us from the Persian word narang, via Arabic and French. Judith Schön raises the question whether the color orange existed for English speakers before the fruit came into their lives. She says that about 100 years after eating the fruit, English speakers used the word orange.

He further wrote that French fries do not come from France, but from Belgium. They are called French because another meaning of that word is 'sliced ​​lengthwise into strips'. Ketchup comes from the word 'briny fish sauce', which is a Chinese word. Judith Schön's book 'The Delightful History of Food Language' is packed with wonderful bits of information, mixed with fun stuff about food. A very useful book for anyone who eats and/or likes words.