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6 English Words You Use Daily That Came From Arabic

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6 everyday English words that came from Arabic. How many did you know?
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Sources:
- Wiktionary etymologies: algebra, zero, alcohol, coffee, sugar, cotton (https://en.wiktionary.org)
- Wikipedia: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Al-Jabr, c. 820, Baghdad)
- Wikipedia: List of English words of Arabic origin
- Quran 12:2 (Surah Yusuf), translation of the meaning; text via quran.com

Images:
- Al-Khwarizmi manuscript (Bodleian MS. Huntington 214), public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cotton, sugar and coffee photos: Wikimedia Commons (MarkSweep, Alorin, Dietmar Rabich, TealPeacock), CC BY / CC BY-SA / public domain
Sound: original ambient sound, no instruments.
Some words reached English through Italian, French, Turkish or Dutch; Arabic is the origin of each.

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