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Hashīsh [ħʃjʃ] ( listen ⓘ )in Arabic has the literal meaning "dried herb" and "rough grass". It also means hemp grown for textile fiber. Its earliest record as a nickname for cannabis drug is in 12th- or 13th-century Arabic. [25] In English in a traveller's report from Egypt in 1598 it is found in the form " assis ".
rook (chess), roc (mythology) رُخّ rukhkh [ruxː] ( listen ⓘ ), (1) the rook piece in the game of chess, (2) a mythological bird in the 1001 Arabian Nights tales. The Arabic dictionary Lisan al-Arab completed in 1290 said the chess-piece name rukhkh came from Persian; crossref check.
Rhanterium epapposum is a plant of the family Asteraceae. [1] Native to the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar where it is known locally as arfaj ( Arabic: عرفج ). [2] The arfaj consists of a complicated network of branches scattered with small thorny leaves and bright yellow flowers about 1.5 cm wide.
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [11] The input text had to be translated into English first ...
Incidentally the botanical genus Abelmoschus got its name from Arabic حبّ المسك habb el-misk = "musk seed", a seed yielding a musky perfume. [35] [36] coffee, café. قهوة [qahwa] ( listen ⓘ ), coffee. Coffee drinking originated in Yemen in the 15th century. [37] Qahwa (itself of uncertain origin) begot Turkish kahve.
Even before Shakespeare's time, parents have turned to nature for naming inspiration and relied on flower baby names. "Names of natural beauty were popular around the turn of the 20th Century.
In a modern etymology analysis of one medieval Arabic list of medicines, the names of the medicines —primarily plant names— were assessed to be 31% ancient Mesopotamian names, 23% Greek names, 18% Persian, 13% Indian (often via Persian), 5% uniquely Arabic, and 3% Egyptian, with the remaining 7% of unassessable origin.
The written Arabic tahīna is pronounced "taheeny" in Levantine Arabic. The word entered English directly from Levantine Arabic around year 1900, although tahini was rarely eaten in English-speaking countries until around 1970. Definition of tahini | Dictionary.com talc طلق talq [tˤalq] (listen ⓘ), mica and talc. Common in medieval Arabic.