Talk:Arabic-English loanwords

You cannot just take all the words that sound similar and assume they came from Arabic. I'd like to see some reliable sources.

Merge

There is already a good article on this subject. But rather than putting a redirect on immediately after some hard work has been done to put this here, I thought we could have a discussion first. We'll need to check is there any words here that are not at list of English words of Arabic origin. Drmaik 05:42, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Merge. I just went through all the words here and found that the only words that List of Arabic loanwords in English does not have are "mulatto," "race," "risk," "talisman," and "sugar" (So far). I would suggest that the words that can be integrated, should be, with proper referencing. The list here is not even in alpahbetical order. Also it is List of Arabic loanwords in English, not list of English words of Arabic origin. --Martian.knight 05:48, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Comment. Sorry I didn't check whether it was a redirect. Drmaik 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, and that brings another point: the two pages are essentially the same. --Martian.knight 05:56, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, which two pages? Drmaik 06:29, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I was suggesting that Arabic-English loanwords looks like it was created without the author searching for similar articles, from whence they would have found List of Arabic loanwords in English. --Martian.knight 00:19, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Merged via redirect Drmaik 19:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

which words should be introduced

Thanks Martian for going through the list. However, 'risk' seem to be from Greek not Arabic [1], mulatto is controversial, but could be put in the relevant section, 'race' seems to me to be even less likely (but it has been claimed), talisman seems to be a blend of the Arabic loan from Greek and the Greek itself [2], while sugar has defintely come to use through Arabic (ultiamltely from Sanskrit) [3]. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Drmaik (talk • contribs) 06:47, 7 May 2007 (UTC).

Thanks for looking at etymology, I simply wished to outline discrepancies. I do not know the policy for reaching an agreement on these things, but support the transfer of words that belong in List of Arabic loanwords in English. --Martian.knight 00:23, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

About that merge...

Is this going to just sit here and stagnate or will it be merged? It appears that merging is the logical choice. --Martian.knight 09:49, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

we're meant to wait 5 days for consensus: that's tomorrow. I probably won't be online...Drmaik 14:37, 11 May 2007 (UTC)