rhododendron=رودودندرون

rhododendron=رودودندرون

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

rhododendron (n.)

c.1600, from L. rhododendron, from Gk. rhododendron, lit. "rose-tree," from rhodon "rose" (see rose) + dendron "tree" (see dendro-).

rose (n.)

O.E. rose, from L. rosa (source of Italian and Spanish rosa, French rose; also source of Dutch roos, German Rose, Swedish ros, etc.), probably via Italian and Greek dialects from Gk. rhodon "rose" (Aeolic wrodon), ultimately from Persian *vrda-. But cf. Tucker: "The rose was a special growth of Macedonia & the Thracian region as well as of Persia, & the Lat. & Gk. names prob. came from a Thraco-Phrygian source." Aramaic warda is from O.Persian; the modern Persian cognate, via the usual sound changes, is gul, source of Turk. gül "rose." The ultimate source of all this may be PIE *wrdho- "thorn, bramble."

dendro-

word-forming element meaning "tree," from Gk. dendro-, comb. form of dendron "tree," sometimes especially "fruit tree" (as opposed to hyle "timber"), from PIE *der-drew-, from root *deru- "to be firm, solid, steadfast," specifically used for "wood, tree" (see tree).