<Li> Jump up ^ A list of 43 of Forsskål's Latinized Arabic fish names is at Baheyeldin.com/linguistics . Forsskål was a student of Arabic language as well as of taxonomy . His published journals contain the underlying Arabic names as well as his Latinizations of them (downloadable from links at the Wikipedia Peter Forsskål page). </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Most of those miscellaneous botanical names are discussed in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen, by Helmut Genaust, year 1996 . About half of them are in Dictionnaire Étymologique Des Mots Français D'Origine Orientale, by L. Marcel Devic, year 1876 . The following are supplemental notes . The names argel and seyal were introduced to scientific botany nomenclature from الحرجل harjel and سيال seyāl in the early 19th century by the botanist Delile, who had visited North Africa . Retama comes from an old Spanish name for broom bushes and the Spanish name is from medieval Arabic رتم ratam with the same meaning--ref, ref . Acerola is from tropical New World Spanish acerola = "acerola cherry" which is from medieval Spanish and Portuguese acerola azerola azarola = "azarole hawthorn" which is from medieval Arabic الزعرور al - zoʿrūr = "azarole hawthorn"--ref, ref . Alchimilla appears in 16th century Europe with the same core meaning as today's Alchemilla (e.g.). Reporters on Alchemilla agree it is from Arabic although they do not agree on how . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ In late medieval English, chamelet chamlet was a costly fabric and was typically an import from the Near East--MED, NED . Today spelled "camlet", it is synonymous with French camelot which the French CNRTL.fr says is "from Arabic khamlāt, plural of khamla, meaning plush woollen cloth...The stuff was made in the Orient and introduced to the Occident at the same time as the word ." The historian Wilhelm Heyd (1886) says: "The (medieval) Arabic khamla meant cloth with a long nap, cloth with a lot of plush . This is the common character of all the camlets (of the late medieval Latins). They could be made from diverse materials...Some were made from fine goat hair ."--Histoire du commerce du Levant au moyen - âge, Volume 2 pages 703 - 705, by W. Heyd, year 1886 . The medieval Arabic word was also in the form khamīla . Definitions of خملة khamla خميلة khamīla, and the plural khamlāt, taken from medieval Arabic dictionaries are in Lane's Arabic - English Lexicon page 813 and in the Lisan al - Arab under خمل khaml . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ The English word morocco, meaning a type of leather, is a refreshed spelling of early 16th - century English maroquin, from 15th - century French maroquin meaning a soft flexible leather of goat - skin made in the country of Morocco, or similar leather made anywhere, with maroquin literally meaning "Moroccan, from Morocco". Maroquin @ NED, morocco @ NED, maroquin @ CNRTL.fr, FEW XIX . </Li>

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