Arabic exports

alembic

The alembic, the alchemist's still, is named from Greek ámbix, 'cup', the cap of a still. Arabic made it al-inbīq, and Latin and French turned that into alembic, a word English also wore down to limbeck.

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From Arabic to Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

From Arabic to Spanish

From Old French to French

400 BCEAncient Greek

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