Arabic exports

almanac

Almanac looks Arabic, with its al-, and is usually traced to an Andalusian Arabic word for 'calendar'. No medieval Arabic source with that meaning has been found, though, and some scholars think 13th-century Paris astronomers made the word up.

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From Andalusian Arabic to Spanish

From Old French to Middle Dutch, Dutch

From Old French to French, Turkish

1200Andalusian Arabic

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