There are many foreign words in the English language. In the era of the Internet and market globalization, different languages easily get in touch and frequently borrow words from one another.
English has many words from Arabic, Russian, Polish etc., and here are some of the commonly used ones:
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Thanks! Indeed, there's plenty of words from Arabic in English and many other languages.
We didn't know about these Malayan words but we've just checked them out in a dictionary! Thank you noaslpls!
bazar is persian and lots of arabic words entered in english cuz of persian people who use them in their language and like kgebra that entered into english cuz of a persian science named ...Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizm..
Thanks
I believed words such as 'amok' and 'sampan' are derived from Malay/Indonesian words.