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Henna

2 stages from Arabic to English.

Today it means a reddish-brown dye made from a flowering plant, used to color hair and skin
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hinna
Arabic · medieval
"henna plant, dye"
the Arabic name for the flowering plant and its dye
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henna
English · 1600s
"a reddish-brown dye from the henna plant"
adopted directly from Arabic
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