English Words from Arabic
apricot
البَرْقُوق
al-barqūq
A round trip: Latin to Greek to Arabic and back into Europe. Careful – in Arabic today barqūq is the plum, not the apricot.
- Meaning in Arabic
- apricot (in Andalusian Arabic)
- Before Arabic
- Latin praecox, 'early-ripening', via Greek
- Arabic today says
- المِشْمِش
The path between languagespraecox → al-barqūq → apricot
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