Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Arabic ·1300s
Almanac
from al-manākh
- Meaning
- A calendar of astronomical and seasonal data.
- Source word
- al-manākh
- Route into English
- Medieval Arabic astronomy tables → Spanish Arabic → Medieval Latin → English. Roger Bacon records it in English in the 1260s, citing it explicitly as an Arabic term.
- Arrived
- 1300s
From Arabic
Science, trade, and the Mediterranean transit of Andalusian scholarship gave English its Arabic stratum — especially in maths, chemistry, and commerce. Many entered through Latin or Italian.
English borrows.
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