Editing Ceviche (section)

== Etymology ==

The first documented evidence of the term {{lang|es|ceviche}} is from 1820, in the patriotic song "[[:es:La chicha|La Chicha]]," considered the first Peruvian national anthem.

According to the [[Royal Spanish Academy]], the word might have the same etymology as the Spanish term {{lang|es|[[escabeche]]}}, which derives from [[Mozarabic language|Mozarabic]] {{lang|mxi|izkebêch}}, in turn descending from [[Andalusian Arabic]] {{lang|xaa-Latn|assukkabáǧ}}, which also derives from [[Classical Arabic]] {{lang|ar-Latn|sakbāj}} ({{lang|ar|سكباج}},<ref>{{cite web |title=Cebiche |url=https://dle.rae.es/cebiche |website=DLE: Diccionario de la Lengua Española |publisher=Real Academia Española |access-date=30 August 2023}}</ref> meaning meat cooked in vinegar).<ref name="RAE-cebiche4">{{cite web |title=sebiche |work=Diccionario de la Lengua Española |publisher=[[Royal Spanish Academy]] |url=http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=cebiche |access-date=2010-08-09 |archive-date=2012-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213143307/http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=cebiche |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Hans Wehr, ''Arabic–English Dictionary.'' Otto Harrassowitz KG: 1994. Page 486</ref> It is ultimately from the unattested [[Middle Persian]] {{lang|pal-Latn|*sikbāg}}, from {{lang|pal-Latn|sik}} ("vinegar")<ref>"sik" in [[David Neil MacKenzie]] (1986), ''A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary'', London: Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-713559-5}}</ref> and {{lang|pal-Latn|*bāg}} ("soup"), which also yielded the [[Persian language|Persian]] word {{lang|fa-Latn|sekbā}} ({{lang|fa|سکبا}}, a soup made with meat and vinegar).<ref>{{lang|fa|سکبا}} in ''[[Dehkhoda Dictionary]]''</ref> Another hypothesis is that it derives from the Quechua word {{lang|qu|siwichi}}, meaning fresh fish.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Descubre el origen del Cebiche, uno de los potajes más "trendys" y aclamados |url=https://www.peru.travel/es/masperu/descubre-el-origen-del-cebiche-uno-de-los-potajes-mas-trendys-y-aclamados |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226041032/https://www.peru.travel/es/masperu/descubre-el-origen-del-cebiche-uno-de-los-potajes-mas-trendys-y-aclamados |archive-date=2021-12-26 |access-date=2021-08-16}}</ref>

The name of the dish is spelled variously as {{lang|es|cebiche}}, {{lang|es|ceviche}}, {{lang|es|seviche}}, or {{lang|es|sebiche}}, but the most common spelling is ''ceviche'' with ''v'', such as in Peru, which is an alternative spelling accepted by the Royal Spanish Academy.<ref name="RAE-cebiche1" /><ref name="RAE-cebiche3" /> There are also other local variants of the name, including {{lang|es|cerbiche}} and {{lang|es|serviche}}.<ref name="Harrison, p. 85">[[Ceviche#beyond gumbo|Harrison, ''Beyond Gumbo'']], p. 85</ref>