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Stage 1 of 3
mamluk
Arabic · medieval
"purchased slave-soldier"
literally "one possessed"; a slave-soldier, later a ruling military caste
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Stage 2 of 3
mameluk
French · 1200s
"Egyptian slave-soldier"
carried the term into European chronicles of the Crusades
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Stage 3 of 3
mameluke
English · 1254
"member of Egypt's slave-soldier dynasty"
named the dynasty of former slave-soldiers who ruled Egypt
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