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Borage

2 stages from Arabic to English.

Today it means a blue-flowered herb used in cooking and traditional medicine
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Stage 1 of 2
abu 'araq
Arabic · medieval
"father of sweat"
literally father of sweat, a plant used to induce sweating as a remedy
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borage
English · 1300s
"a blue-flowered culinary and medicinal herb"
settled as the word for the blue-flowered herb
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