Present-Day English → Medieval Latin · borrowing

SOUND

English borrowed the learned form through Medieval Latin and Romance channels, with stress and vowel adaptation.

MEANING

A named mathematical art developed into the broad modern discipline.

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Merriam-Webster · Oxford editors

Medieval Latin → Classical Arabic · borrowing

SOUND

Arabic al-jabr was adapted into Medieval Latin algebra, retaining the article as part of the word.

MEANING

An operation of restoring a subtracted term—and a title phrase—came to name the mathematical discipline; a bone-setting sense also circulated.

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Oxford · MacTutor editors

Classical Arabic → Classical Arabic · derivation

SOUND

The Arabic verbal noun jabr is derived from jabara; the definite article al- is prefixed.

MEANING

Restoring, reuniting, or mending is specialized as a mathematical operation.

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Oxford University Press editors

Classical Arabic → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND

This dossier does not promote a deeper Semitic reconstruction without a reviewed specialist source.

MEANING

The attested Arabic verb is the current evidentiary horizon.

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