Arabic exports

salaam

Arabic salām 'peace', the greeting of as-salāmu ʿalaykum, reached English in the 1610s through travellers to the Ottoman and Mughal courts, where it named a deep ceremonial bow as much as the words.

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The road to English

From Arabic to Portuguese

From Arabic to Persian, Urdu

From Arabic to Malay

From Arabic to Swahili

630 CEArabic

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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