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marfim: Arabic → Portuguese · Lexodus

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marfim

From Old Galician-Portuguese almafi, from Arabic عَظْم اَلْفِيل (ʕaẓm al-fīl, “elephant-bone”), from عَظْم (ʕaẓm, “bone”) + فِيل (fīl, “elephant”). Compare Galician, Spanish, and Catalan marfil.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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c. 750 CE
c. 1300

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