English Words from Arabic
mummy
المُومِياء
mūmiyāʾ
The name first meant a black medicinal bitumen, said to be taken from embalmed bodies in Egypt – and then passed to the bodies themselves.
- Meaning in Arabic
- bitumen used as medicine
- Before Arabic
- Persian mūm, 'wax' (Merriam-Webster)
- Arabic today says
- المُومِياء
The path between languagesmūmiyāʾ → mummy
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