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- "هٰذِهِ الْموزة طَيِّبة."
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Where is the word banana in Arabic from...? It is so strange, weird, ممتع, that it sounds different than the word banana which is banana in every other language I know so far - how it is...? What is its origin in Arabic? Why the whole world call that fruit banana, but the Arabic language has its own word, something totally different - what does its root mean and what is the reason it's so different?
Maybe it was already asked and explained somewhere else, but I was running with exercises and didn't check every forum, so sorry if it's so, feel free to answer with link.
My question shows prove that I studied historical linguistics - it's interesting for me to discover what is interesting for me... :D Prove that I made a good choice with my thesis theme... :D
It looks like it was borrowed from Sanskrit. See https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/banana.738243/. Also "musa" is the scientific name for banana.
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Is it just me or is the voice over in exercise different from here in the comments section? what gives?