alizari

Etymology

From French alizari (“madder root (commercial name)”), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).

noun

The madder of the Levant; wild madder (Rubia peregrina).“the able Holland merchants dispersed it in all the markets of Europe , after they had mixed it with the alizaris of Levant”