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Sham

It could be from Arabic شَام (šām, literally “Syria”), from which it spread also to Gujarat. Perhaps also an altered spelling of French Cham.

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Wiktionary: Sham (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wiktextract / kaikki.org

c. 1700French

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c. 1700
c. 1720
c. 1740

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