Words that come from Arabic صفر

89 words across 30 languages descend from Arabic صفر — including cipher, ciphertext, cypher, chiffre, encipher, encipherment, encipherer, cipherer.

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English (17)

Italian (15)

French (10)

Dutch (5)

Russian (5)

German (4)

Polish (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Old French (3)

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Serbo-Croatian (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Basque (1)

Catalan (1)

Japanese (1)

Latin (1)

Hungarian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Armenian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Maltese (1)

Arabic (1)

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Papiamentu (1)

Portuguese (1)

Romanian (1)

Kabuverdianu (1)

Middle English (1)

Middle High German (1)