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شام: Arabic → Persian → Urdu · Lexodus

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شامSyria

Borrowed from Classical Persian شام (šām, “Greater Syria; Levant”), from Arabic الشَّام (aš-šām, “Levant; Damascus”).

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This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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c. 750 CE
c. 1050
c. 1700

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