Arabic exports

mukhtar

Arabic muḵtār means 'chosen'. Ottoman local government made it the title of a village or neighbourhood headman, and English met the mukhtar in the Levant. In British India, a mukhtar was instead a minor legal agent.

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The road to English

From Arabic to Urdu, Indian English

From Ottoman Turkish to Turkish

From Ottoman Turkish to Modern Greek

800 CEArabic

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