The story
- Arabic · borrowed fromمَقْدِسِيّ
- English todayMaqdisi
From Arabic مَقْدِسِيّ (maqdisiyy), from بَيْت اَلْمَقْدِس (bayt al-maqdis, “Jerusalem, al-Quds, 'House of the Holy Place'”) + ـِيّ (-iyy, “-ite”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.