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tarragon

Europe learned the herb tarragon from Arabic medicine as ṭarḵūn, usually traced to Greek drakóntion, 'dragon plant', though that link is uncertain; its name reached English in the 1530s. French estragon carried it to German and Russian, while Georgian tarkhuna gave the Soviet Union its bright green Tarkhun soda.

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The road to English

From Arabic to Byzantine Greek

From Medieval Latin to Middle French, French

From Arabic to Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

From Arabic to Spanish

From French to German

From French to Russian

From Arabic to Persian

From Arabic to Georgian, Russian

60 CEKoine Greek

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