<Dl> <Dt> lilac </Dt> <Dd> It is well documented that the common lilac tree was originally brought to Western Europe directly from Istanbul in the early 1560s . Among the earliest records of the tree and of the word in the Western European languages are in botany books in Latin by P.A. Matthiolus in 1565 and Carolus Clusius in 1576 stating that the "Lilac" tree was recently brought to Western Europe from the Turks and from Istanbul . "Lilac" is in English in the botanist John Gerarde in 1596 and 1597, a date which ranks among the word's earliest in any vernacular Western European language . The early word in Western Europe had the exclusive meaning of the common lilac tree (aka Syringa vulgaris). The tree's native place of origin was the Balkans, where it blooms in the wild with light - purple blue - ish flowers . There is reason to think the name may be descended from a Persian word for blue - ish color . The Persian is not attested as a tree or a flower; it is attested as a color . A route of intermediation involving Arabic is a slim possibility . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> It is well documented that the common lilac tree was originally brought to Western Europe directly from Istanbul in the early 1560s . Among the earliest records of the tree and of the word in the Western European languages are in botany books in Latin by P.A. Matthiolus in 1565 and Carolus Clusius in 1576 stating that the "Lilac" tree was recently brought to Western Europe from the Turks and from Istanbul . "Lilac" is in English in the botanist John Gerarde in 1596 and 1597, a date which ranks among the word's earliest in any vernacular Western European language . The early word in Western Europe had the exclusive meaning of the common lilac tree (aka Syringa vulgaris). The tree's native place of origin was the Balkans, where it blooms in the wild with light - purple blue - ish flowers . There is reason to think the name may be descended from a Persian word for blue - ish color . The Persian is not attested as a tree or a flower; it is attested as a color . A route of intermediation involving Arabic is a slim possibility . </Dd> <Dl> <Dt> macabre </Dt> <Dd> Records begin in late medieval French (1376). All the early records involve "the very specific phrase danse macabre, which denoted a dance in which a figure representing death enticed people to dance with him until they dropped down dead ." A non-Arabic candidate for the origin of the French exists but has semantic and phonetic weaknesses . The meaning can be fitted to the Arabic مقابر maqābir = "graves". Maqābir is frequent in medieval Arabic meaning a cemetery . Medieval Portuguese almocavar = "cemetery for Muslims or Jews" is certainly from the Arabic al - maqābir . But there is no known historical context for a transfer of the Arabic (via any pathway) into the French danse macabre . That is a major weakness . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Records begin in late medieval French (1376). All the early records involve "the very specific phrase danse macabre, which denoted a dance in which a figure representing death enticed people to dance with him until they dropped down dead ." A non-Arabic candidate for the origin of the French exists but has semantic and phonetic weaknesses . The meaning can be fitted to the Arabic مقابر maqābir = "graves". Maqābir is frequent in medieval Arabic meaning a cemetery . Medieval Portuguese almocavar = "cemetery for Muslims or Jews" is certainly from the Arabic al - maqābir . But there is no known historical context for a transfer of the Arabic (via any pathway) into the French danse macabre . That is a major weakness . </Dd>

Which of these fruits gets its name from an arabic word which can be translated as dates from india