An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Ingwer

by Friedrich Kluge

Ingwer, masculine, ‘ginger,’ from the equivalent Middle High German ingewër, also gingebere, masculine, derived, like Dutch gember, English ginger, French gingembre, Italian zenzovero, zenzero, ‘ginger,’ from the equivalent late Greek ἑιγγίβερις, which comes from the East; compare Arabic zendjebîl, from Prakrit singabêra (Sanscrit çṛñgavêra).