Arabic exports

hakimphysician, sage

Arabic ḥakīm means 'wise'. In Persian and Indian Muslim society it became the title of the physician of Greek-Arabic (Unani) medicine, and English travellers took it home in the late 16th century.

Weakest linkProbable

The road to English

From Persian to Urdu

From Arabic to Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

630 CEArabic

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