English Words from Arabic
cipher
الصِّفْر
ṣifr
The same ṣifr left a second time: first meaning zero, then any digit, then a secret code. It came back to Arabic as shīfra.
- Meaning in Arabic
- empty
- Arabic today says
- الشِّيفْرَة
The path between languagesṣifr → cipher
It left Arabic and came back to it in its European form.
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