Afrikaans
24 words that reached Afrikaans from Semitic languages. Extracted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unreviewed.
- Addis AbebaAmharic · “Addis Ababa (the capital city of Ethiopia)”
- agbaarArabic · “honorable, respectable”
- assegaaiArabic · “assegai”
- golemModern Hebrew · “a formless mass; embrio”
- hadjArabic · “hajj”
- IsraelBiblical Hebrew · “Israel (a country in Western Asia in the Middle ”
- kafferArabic · “A Bantu person (as distinct from a Bushman)”
- KaïroArabic · “Cairo (the capital city of Egypt)”
- kanaalSumerian · “canal (artificial waterway)”
- karmosynArabic · “crimson (having a crimson colour)”
- kibboetsModern Hebrew · “kibbutz”
- koffieArabic · “coffee”
- lemoenPersian · “orange (fruit)”
- madressaArabic · “madrasa (Islamic school)”
- matrasArabic · “A mattress.”
- moskeeArabic · “mosque”
- mummieArabic · “A mummy (extensively preserved corpse).”
- oranjeSanskrit · “orange”
- papegaaiArabic · “a parrot”
- PieterAramaic · “a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent”
- SiriëAkkadian · “Syria (a country in West Asia in the Middle East”
- soekArabic · “market, souq, bazaar, street of shops”
- spinasiePersian · “spinach”
- suikerSanskrit · “sugar”