• LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    In Malayalam (I am not a Malayali), we call the sweet-but-juicy spiky yellow fruit chakka or chakkappazham - zh is a unique L sound in the Dravidian language, so it sounds like phalam, means fruit (I think?).

    Chakka -> Jaca -> Jack

    The stupidest naming I’ve ever come across, just for the sake of language purity.