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Where does “Mogadiŝo” come from?

Mogadiŝo (Esperanto) comes from English Mogadishu, from Arabic مَقَدِيشُو, from Persian [[شاه]] [[مقعد]].

Ancestry of “Mogadiŝo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishMogadishu—
2Arabicمَقَدِيشُو—
3Persian[[شاه]] [[مقعد]]—
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