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bugia: Arabic → Catalan · Lexodus

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bugia

From Bugia (“Béjaïa”), a port in Algeria from which wax for candlemaking was imported, from Arabic بِجَايَة (bijāya), from Berber. The sense of "spark plug" is a semantic loan from French bougie which has the same origin.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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c. 750 CE
c. 1200

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