English Words: Arabic origins(words that have come into English from or through Arabic)carafe
caraway
carob
cipher
coffee
cotton
Derived from the Arab word qutun.
The Arabs played a very extensive role in the cotton trade and so the word for cotton came from the Arab traders into the European vocabulary. couscous
crimson
elixir
emir
fakir
gauze
gazelle
genie
ghoul
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