![]() They include names of medicinal plants from Tropical Asia for which there had been no prior Latin or Greek name, such as azedarach, bellerica, cubeba, emblica, galanga, metel, turpethum, zedoaria and zerumbet. Over ninety percent of those botanical names were introduced to medieval Latin in a herbal medicine context. Today, in descent from the medieval Latin, they are international systematic classification names (commonly known as "Latin" names): Azadirachta, Berberis, Cakile, Carthamus, Cuscuta, Doronicum, Galanga, Musa, Nuphar, Ribes, Senna, Taraxacum, Usnea, Physalis alkekengi, Melia azedarach, Centaurea behen, Terminalia bellerica, Terminalia chebula, Cheiranthus cheiri, Piper cubeba, Phyllanthus emblica, Peganum harmala, Salsola kali, Prunus mahaleb, Datura metel, Daphne mezereum, Rheum ribes, Jasminum sambac, Cordia sebestena, Operculina turpethum, Curcuma zedoaria, Alpinia zerumbet + Zingiber zerumbet. ![]() The following plant names entered medieval Latin texts from Arabic. Main article: List of Arabic star names Arabic botanical names List of English words of Arabic origin: Addenda for certain specialist vocabulariesĪddenda for certain specialist vocabularies Islamic terms.List of English words of Arabic origin (T-Z).List of English words of Arabic origin (N-S).List of English words of Arabic origin (K-M).List of English words of Arabic origin (G-J).List of English words of Arabic origin (C-F).List of English words of Arabic origin (A-B).Given the number of words which have entered English from Arabic, this list is split alphabetically into sublists, as listed below: A bigger listing including words very rarely seen in English is at Wiktionary dictionary. Words associated with the Islamic religion are omitted for Islamic words, see Glossary of Islam. A handful of dictionaries have been used as the source for the list. To qualify for this list, a word must be reported in etymology dictionaries as having descended from Arabic. Most entered one or more of the Romance languages, before entering English. The following words have been acquired either directly from Arabic or else indirectly by passing from Arabic into other languages and then into English. Look up Category:English terms derived from Arabic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Īrabic is a Semitic language and English is an Indo-European language.
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