A chickpea or similar legume; a type of pulse plant used in cooking.
Variant spelling related to 'garbanzo' (chickpea), from Spanish 'garbanzo', derived from Basque 'garbanzu'. The word traveled through trade networks from the Mediterranean to Northern Europe.
The chickpea has traveled so far that it has dozens of names in dozens of languages—'garbanzo,' 'chick pea,' 'ceci,' 'gram'—each one a linguistic souvenir of ancient trade routes.
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