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algebra
Al-jabr, 'restoring' or 'setting broken bones', was the first of two operations in the title of al-Khwārizmī's 9th-century treatise on equations; Latin translators kept the word, it became the name of the whole discipline in every European school, and Persian, Turkish, Swahili and Indonesian took it straight from Arabic.
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