Turmeric is having a moment—and it's popping up in way more things (soups! drinks! beauty products!) than your chicken tikka masala. But like so many "it girls," turmeric also has a hard-to-say name.

There are some foods that are just tricky to pronounce. It makes sense; we live in a global food world, so certain ingredient names have their origin in other languages. And one ingredient with ...