Arabic exports

talc

Talc is a Persian mineral name, talk, carried west by Arabic ṭalq. Medieval writers used it for almost any shiny, flaky stone: mica, selenite and talc proper.

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From Arabic to Italian

From Middle French to German, Russian

950 CEPersian

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