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bazazi: Arabic → Swahili · Lexodus

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bazazi

Borrowed from Arabic بَزَّاز (bazzāz, “cloth merchant, draper”). The semantic shift from "trader" to "dishonest person" is because of the use of trickery to get people's custom.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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c. 750 CE
c. 1800

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