Words that come from Egyptian “hbnj”

108 words across 40 languages descend from Egyptian hbnj — including ebony, Ebony, ebonite, ebon, ebonics, Hebonics, ebonize, ebonist.

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English (19)

Dutch (6)

Latin (5)

Romanian (5)

French (4)

Ancient Greek (4)

Italian (4)

Hungarian (4)

Spanish (4)

Finnish (4)

Catalan (3)

Middle Persian (3)

Ottoman Turkish (3)

Polish (3)

Irish (2)

Translingual (2)

Arabic (2)

Portuguese (2)

German (2)

Persian (2)

Middle English (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Russian (2)

Czech (2)

Tagalog (2)

Turkish (1)

Hebrew (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Indonesian (1)

Albanian (1)

Old French (1)

Malay (1)

Swedish (1)

Old Irish (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

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Greek (1)

Kazakh (1)

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