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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.
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 ...
The English word came from the Hindi/Urdu-speaking area of northeast India in the late 18th century and its source was the Hindi/Urdu atr | itr = "perfume", [62] which had come from the Persian ʿitr = "perfume", and the Persian had come medievally from the Arabic ʿitr. [63] aubergine
The Indian word was from Persian, and the Persian was from Arabic, but the Arabic source-word did not mean hookah, although the word re-entered Arabic later on meaning hookah. [33] hummus (food recipe) حمّص himmas, [ħumːmsˤ] (listen ⓘ) chickpea(s). Chickpeas in medieval Arabic were called himmas [2] and were a frequently eaten food ...
damask (textile fabric), damask rose (flower) دمشق dimashq [dimaʃq] (listen ⓘ), city of Damascus.The city name Damascus is very ancient and not Arabic. The damson plum – earlier called also the damask plum and damascene plum – has a word-history in Latin that goes back to the era when Damascus was part of the Roman empire and so it is not from Arabic.
The Arabic word came from Persian. [18] The lemon tree's native origin appears to be in India. [16] [19] lime (fruit) ليم līm [liːm] (listen ⓘ), meaning sometimes any citrus fruit, [17] sometimes lemon and lime fruit, and sometimes a lime fruit. [20] In Arabic līm was a back-formation from līmūn; see lemon.
This Arabic word occurs occasionally in English and French in the 19th century. Sabkha with a technical meaning as coastal salt-flat terrain came into general use in sedimentology in the 20th century through numerous studies of the coastal salt flats on the eastern side of the Arabian peninsula. [25] [26] safari سفر safar [safar] (listen ...
The following are lists of words in the English language that are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages.. For Old English-derived words, see List of English words of Old English origin.