hindi for green ginger from the Sanskrit adraka, which in the atharvaveda  is adara. dried ginger has its own Sanskrit name , srngavera or injivera, of tamil origin : ver is root and inji is a word still used in south India.  the hindi word is sunthi. though the ginger is almost certainly native to south-east asia, long cultivation has obscured the sites of original domestication. Several spiecies are grown in Malaysia and wild forms are still found in India.