English Words from Arabic
camphor
الكافُور
kāfūr
A very old word in Arabic – it is in the Qurʾān (76:5) – that Europe took from Arabic.
- Meaning in Arabic
- camphor
- Before Arabic
- Malay kapur (Merriam-Webster; American Heritage 'possibly')
- Arabic today says
- الكافُور
The path between languageskāfūr → camphor
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