English Words from Arabic
tabby
العَتّابِيّ
ʿattābī
A striped silk woven in the al-ʿAttābiyya quarter of Baghdad became French tabis – and a striped cat came to be called a tabby, after the cloth.
- Meaning in Arabic
- from al-ʿAttābiyya
- Arabic today says
- القِطُّ المُخَطَّط
The path between languagesʿattābī → tabis → tabby
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