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Horde came about via the Mongols, but it seems it is a Turkic word in its origin...what about Hurrah/Hurray, it also came into English via the Mongols, does it have a Turkic base?
" I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study. I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place."
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tulip (n.)
1570s, via Du. or Ger. tulpe, Fr. tulipe "a tulip," all ultimately from Turk. tülbent "turban," also "gauze, muslin," from Pers. dulband "turban;" so called from the fancied resemblance of the flower to a turban.
Introduced from Turkey to Europe, where the earliest known instance of a tulip flowering in cultivation is 1559 in the garden of Johann Heinrich Herwart in Augsburg; popularized in Holland after 1587 by Clusius. The full form of the Turkish word is represented in It. tulipano, Sp. tulipan, but the -an tended to drop in Germanic languages, where it was mistaken for a suffix. Tulip tree (1705), a North American magnolia, so called from its tulip-shaped flowers.
online etymology dictionary-tulip
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The word kebab is Persianshish kebab, doner kebab?
Shish and Döner i think is Turkish...
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Why are there so many Turkic words in English?
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Kebab(kabāb كباب ) is Arabic, you are right about şiş and döner.. Aramaic have similar word as well kbabā כבבא.. Akkadian kabābu..The word kebab is Persian
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Most definitely because that instrument is looking like some form of ancient central Asian stringed ones.
Bala means "small, younger" in Turkic, commonly used word in Azerbaijani, Tatar. Laika is probably related with the word for stringed instrument of lyra, lyre. So, it probably means "small lyre" in common Turkic.
In fact, Englishmen most likely adopted these words from Dutch, German and French, who previously adopted these words from Turks.
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Is there an academic source verifying this?
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'Bahadur' was used in English?
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