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2. List of English words of Arabic origin - Wikipedia

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   Archaic and rare words are also omitted. A bigger listing including words very rarely seen in English is at Wiktionary dictionary. Given the number of words which have entered English from Arabic, this list is split alphabetically into sublists, as listed below: List of English words of Arabic origin (A-B) List of English words of Arabic origin ...

3. List of English words of Arabic origin (A–B) - Wikipedia

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   The following English words have been acquired either directly from Arabic or else indirectly by passing from Arabic into other languages and then into English. Most entered one or more of the Romance languages before entering English.

4. List of English words of Arabic origin (G–J) - Wikipedia

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   The Arabic root-word means "forbidden" and thus the word had a connotation of a place where men were forbidden. (Crossref Persian and Urdu Zenana for semantics.) 17th-century English entered English through Turkish, where the meaning was closer to what the English is. In Arabic today harīm means womenkind in general. [24] hashish

5. List of English words of Arabic origin (T–Z) - Wikipedia

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   The following are Arabic-descended words in English that got established in later medieval Latinate commerce on the Mediterranean Sea with start dates in Italian (also Catalan) earlier than Spanish or Portuguese: arsenal, average, carat, garble, magazine, sequin, tare (weight), and tariff.

6. List of English words of Arabic origin (N–S) - Wikipedia

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   The Arabic word for a bundle spread to most European languages along with paper itself, with the initial transfer from Arabic happening in Iberia. [16] Spanish was resma, Italian risma. The Catalan raima, first record 1287, [13] looks to be the forerunner of the English word-form. The first record in English is 1356.

7. List of English words of Arabic origin (C–F) - Wikipedia

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   The word with that meaning is quite common in mid-medieval Arabic. Spelled "caraway" in English in the 1390s in a cookery book. The English word came from Arabic via medieval Romance languages. [18] [19] carob خرّوب kharrūb [xrːwb] (listen ⓘ), carob. Carob beans and carob pods were consumed in the Mediterranean area from ancient times ...