Rhubarb cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit:- "Rhubarb" originally comes from the two Greek words for rhubarb. "Rheon" from the Persian "rewend", later became the Latin word "rheum", meaning rhubarb. The other Greek word is "rha", an ancient name for the Volga River in Russian, where rhubarb was cultivated, having been introduced there from China via the Silk Road. In medieval Latin, "rheon" and "rha" became "rheum barbarum", literally "foreign rhubarb" or "strange rhubarb", and evolved later into "rheubarbarum". Most likely, the English word "rhubarb" entered the language via the French word "rhubarbe" brought over by
Bandar Seri Begawan then made the defence minister and on 5 October 1970, the city was renamed to honour him. The word "Begawan" was also used for Bruneian monarchs who have abdicated, the word originally coming from the Sanskrit word for "god": भगवान् "bhagavān". Besides that, "Seri Begawan" was known as "blessed one" in Sanskrit. "Seri" comes from the honorific Sanskrit word श्री "Sri", and "Bandar" comes from Persian via Indian languages and originally meant "harbour" or "port" or "haven". In Malay, the word "bandar" means "town" or a "city". Human settlement in Brunei can be traced back to the 6th and 7th