admiral - admiral
- أمير amīr, commander. Amīr al-bihār = "commander of the seas"
adobe
sun-dried brick made of clay and strawalchemy . a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Agesalcohol - alcohol
- الكحل al-kohl, finely powdered stibnite and any similar fine powder.
alcove
noun1.a recess or small room adjacent to or opening out of a room: a dining alcove. alembic noun1.a vessel with a beaked cap or head, formerly used in distilling. 2.anything that transforms, purifies, or refines.
alfalfa
noun a plant, Medicago sativa,
algebra
- algebra
- الجبر al-jabr, completing, or restoring broken parts
algorithm
alkali for example the hydroxides of the alkali metals and of ammonium,...
almanac
an annual publication containing a calendar for the coming year,
amalgam
an alloy of mercury with another metal or metals. aniline
apricot - apricot
- البرقوق al-barqūq, apricot, literally "precocious" and specifically precociously ripening peaches
arsenala place of storage or a magazine containing arms and military equipment for land or naval service
arsenic
artichoke
a tall, thistlelike composite plant
assassin
aubergine
azure of or having a light, purplish shade of blue, like that of a clear and unclouded sky
barbarian?
bedouin
1.an Arab of the desert, in Asia or Africa; nomadic Arab. benzine(?)
Betelgeuse a star
bint a scornful word about woman
borax a white, water-soluble powder
cable
calabash
calibre
caliph
camel
camise
camphor
candy
cane
cannabis
carafe
carat
caraway
carmine | carob
casbah
check
checkmate
cinnabar
cipher
coffee
copt
cotton
crimson
crocus
cumin
damask
dhow
dragoman
elixir
emir
fakir
fellah
garble
gauze
gazelle
ghoul
Gibraltar
giraffe
grab
guitar
gypsum
halva
harem
hashish
hazard
henna
hookah
imam
influenza
jar
jasmine
jerboa
jessamine | jinn
kafir
khamsin
khan
kismet
kohl
lacquer
lake
lemon
lilac
lime
lute
magazine
mahdi
marabout
marzipan
massacre
massage - massage
- The English comes from French. The French is first recorded in 1779 as a verb masser = "to massage" which then produced the noun massage starting in 1808. The origin of the French is obscure. Perhaps from Arabic مسّ mass = "to touch". Another possibility is from Portuguese amassar = "to knead" or Greek massein = "to knead"
mastaba
mate
mattress
mecca
minaret
mizzen
mocha
mohair
monsoon
mosque
muezzin
mufti
mullah
mummy
muslim
muslin
myrrh
nabob
nacre
nadir
orange
ottoman
| popinjay
racket
safari
saffron
saloop
sash
scallion
senna
sequin
serif
sesame
shackle
sheikh
sherbet
shrub
sirocco
sofa
spinach
sudd
sufi
sugar
sultan
sultana
syrup
tabby
talc
talisman
tamarind
tambourine
tarboosh
tare
tariff
tarragon
Trafalgar
typhoon
vega
vizier
wadi
zenith
zero |
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Comments
Shining star my greatest friend of all that I have ever had and will ever have...SHUKRAN !!!!!!!! thank you for your support!
Only who knows the Arabic meaning of those words and how to say it in Arabic .. it mostly as we say ... you will Feel how this blog is GREAT and she is RIGHT about every word here ...
Hello, guys!
Please take note that the pronunciation of the word 'serif' should be /'serɪf/. I mistook it for 'sheriff' /'ʃerɪf/. I'm sorry!
HER shining star...by who and how will i be rewarded..tell me plz i wanna know i wanna know..(jumping like a kid when expecting any gift)..heheh thank you....
@dear Gabriel, the audio is really working but i was expecting to hear your voice, anyway, i will click on PLAY button more than once for sure...thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PS I will think about changing the settings of the comment approvement)
@ lamlom what a pity that I don't know any of those Arabic characters right now, but time will come and i will take up Arabic more seriously than now!
dear NONNA thank you for your comments, I will delete the words saloop and checkmate, but the history of checkmate was very interesting SHUKRAN!
Lol... not again! Now I've to wait for your approval! Bia, frankly speaking, this is very inconvenient for us! I need to check whether the audio is working or not. But... :-(
Hello, Bia and friends!
Here’s my voice recording of the above list of ‘Arabic words in English’. The task was really challenging but I enjoyed doing it. The utter truth is anyone could pronounce these and all the other words in English if he/she could read the phonetic spellings. I’m very proud that 12 EC members are currently attending our virtual class and learning phonetics enthusiastically!
First I would like to thank you for that nice Nice blog,
I'm Arab and I'm native in Arabic, and most of the words up are in Arabic, but with little differences in the pronunciation . and some other words Im' not sure weather they have an Arabic origins or no, Or Probably they were taken from arabic and later people omitted letters or added new letters to those words....etc , that's why they took those forms which are strange for a native Arabic speaker like me .
Examples for words which were taken from Arabic and the their Arabic words :
crimson = crmozy
camphor = caphor
Camel = Jamal
Algebra = Jabr
I would like to correct a word " Saloop " If you mean Salon....it's not in Arabic :) dear
As for the word " checkmate " let's break it down into " check" and " mate "
*check = shah which means the King " but that one isn't in Arabic it's Persian , I'm sure about that part although I'm not Persian , but I know that in Persian they call the king " shah" like (shah Iran)
*mate = Mat which means died and that part is in Arabic
so the whole word is " checkmate " the king died
you can check this link , scroll down and read the "Etymology " paragraph. :D
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