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See also External links A abricot' ("apricot"): from Catalan albercoc, derived from the Arabic al barqūq (أَلْبَرْقُوق) which is itself borrowed from Late Greek praikokkion derived from Latin præcoquum, meaning "(the) early fruit" adoble (" adobe "): from Spanish adobe, derived from the Arabic al-ṭūb (الطوب) meaning "(the) brick of dried earth" albacore (" albacore ...
The glossary contains a list of Old French words and phrases written in Coptic script with their Arabic equivalents in Arabic script. [2] [3] There are 228 lemmata. [5] The great majority are single words. There are only a few sentences. [6] Coptic was probably chosen to represent the French because, unlike Arabic, it has characters for vowels. [7]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Lists of loanwords of Arabic origin" ... List of French words of Arabic origin
To qualify for this list, a word must be reported in etymology dictionaries as having descended from Arabic. A handful of dictionaries have been used as the source for the list. [1] Words associated with the Islamic religion are omitted; for Islamic words, see Glossary of Islam. Archaic and rare words are also omitted.
The origin of the meaning (for French speakers) is that at a table d'hôte (literally "table of the house" or "table of the host"), unlike at a full-service purpose-built hotel, all patrons eat together at the host's table, whatever the family have prepared for themselves (typically traditional regional dishes).
The Arabic and the Turkish words are used in somewhat different contexts. kızıl is mostly used for red hair. قسم kısm * kısım: bölüm: part From the root böl– "to divide." كتاب kitab * kitap: betik ** book From the Old Turkic root biti– "to write". Some say it is a loanword from Chinese word 筆, meaning "brush" [1] but it ...
It excludes combinations of words of French origin with words whose origin is a language other than French — e.g., ice cream, sunray, jellyfish, killjoy, lifeguard, and passageway— and English-made combinations of words of French origin — e.g., grapefruit (grape + fruit), layperson (lay + person), mailorder, magpie, marketplace, surrender ...
The word entered astrology in the West with this meaning in the early 17th century, beginning in French. Early users in French said the word came from Arabic. [5] Definition of talisman | Dictionary.com tamarind تمر هندي tamr hindī (literally: "Indian date") [tamr hndj] (listen ⓘ), tamarind. Tamarinds were in use in ancient India.