English Words from Arabic
mohair
المُخَيَّر
mukhayyar
Through Italian mocaiarro; in English it was reshaped as mohair because the end sounded like hair – and it is made of hair.
- Meaning in Arabic
- the chosen (cloth)
- Arabic today says
- المُوهَير
The path between languagesmukhayyar → mocaiarro → mohair
It left Arabic and came back to it in its European form.
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