Cinnamon

The name cinnamon comes from Hebrew and Phoenician through the Greek kinná mMmon. In India, where it is cultivated in the hill ranges of Kerala, it is called " karuvapatta" . In Indonesia, where it is cultivated in Java and Sumatra, it is called kayu manis ( " sweet wood" ) and sometimes cassia vera, the " real" cassia In Sri Lanka, in the original Sinhala, cinnamon is known as kurundu recorded in English in the 17th century as Korunda. In Arabic it is called qerfa. In Swahili it is called " mdalasini" . In several European languages, the word for cinnamon comes from the Latin word cannella, a diminutive of canna, " cane" .