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Where does “ماندولین” come from?

ماندولین (Ottoman Turkish) comes from French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, from Italian mandola, from Latin pandura, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα — pandura, a three-stringed lute.

Ancestry of “ماندولین”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmandolinemandolin; vegetable slicer, mandoline
2Italianmandolinomandolin
3Italianmandolamandola
4Latinpanduraa pandore
5Ancient Greekπανδοῦραpandura, a three-stringed lute
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