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Words Arabic Took In

Zīj, astrolabe, falsafa: words Arabic took from others and shaped to its own patterns.

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zīj asṭurlāb falsafa

Why these cards?

Each card is a word Arabic took from another language: its origin and first meaning, its meaning in Arabic, and what an early Arab scholar said of it, from his own book. No origin is given unless both the classical sources and a modern dictionary support it.

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asṭurlāb
astrolabos
qīrāṭ
keration
tiryāq
thēriakē