English Words from Arabic
artichoke
الخُرْشُوف
al-kharshūf
Through Old Spanish alcarchofa and northern Italian articiocco – the Arabic article al- hides in the first letters.
- Meaning in Arabic
- artichoke
- Arabic today says
- الخُرْشُوف
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