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Where does “zebaki” come from?

zebaki (Swahili) comes from Arabic زِئْبَق, from Classical Syriac ܙܝܘܓ.

zebaki (Swahili): mercury

Definitions

  1. mercury

Ancestry of “zebaki”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicزِئْبَقmercury
2Classical Syriacܙܝܘܓ—
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