the following english words have been acquired either directly from arabic or else indirectly by passing from arabic into other languages and then into english. most entered one or more of the romance languages before entering english. to qualify for this list, a word must be reported in etymology dictionaries as having descended from arabic. a handful of dictionaries has been used as the source for the list.the dictionaries used to compile the list are these: centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales: etymologies, online etymology dictionary, random house dictionary, concise oxford english dictionary, american heritage dictionary, collins english dictionary, merriam-webster's collegiate dictionary, arabismen im deutschen: lexikalische transferenzen vom arabischen ins deutsche, by raja tazi (year 1998), a new english dictionary on historical principles (a.k.a. "ned") (published in pieces between 1888 and 1928), an etymological dictionary of modern english (year 1921) by ernest weekley. footnotes for individual words have supplementary other references. the most frequently cited of the supplementary references is glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais dÃ©rivÃ©s de l'arabe (year 1869) by reinhart dozy. words associated with the islamic religion are omitted; for islamic words, see glossary of islam. archaic and rare words are also omitted. a bigger listing including words very rarely seen in english is at wiktionary dictionary. given the number of words which have entered english from arabic, this list is split alphabetically into sublists, as listed below: *list of english words of arabic origin (a-b) *list of english words of arabic origin (c-f) *list of english words of arabic origin (g-j) *list of english words of arabic origin (k-m) *list of english words of arabic origin (n-s) *list of english words of arabic origin (t-z) *list of english words of arabic origin: addenda for certain specialist vocabularies ==footnotes==    la:nomina latina e lingua arabica mutuata ms:daftar kata serapan dari bahasa arab dalam bahasa melayu
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