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Top 50+ English Words—of Arabic Origin! Posted by on Feb 21, 2012

Did you know that words like Adobe and Safari  are actually Arabic?  Of course, you already knew of the existence of so-called “loanwords” in English, meaning words which are originally French, German, Spanish, etc. But were you actually aware that several of them also come from ARABIC?  IN SCIENCE AND MATH: ALCHEMY and CHEMISTRY (الكيميـــــــــاء.) ALCOHOL (الكُحُـــــــــول.)  ALGEBRA…

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