English Words from Arabic
muslin
المَوْصِلِيّ
mawṣilī
A fine cotton cloth named after the Iraqi city of Mosul, through Italian mussolina and French mousseline.
- Meaning in Arabic
- from Mosul
- Arabic today says
- المُوسْلِين
The path between languagesmawṣilī → mussolina → muslin
It left Arabic and came back to it in its European form.
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