Etymology

Obock

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Today it means: A wadi in Obock, Djibouti, Horn of Africa Full definition →

French Obock ← Arabic أوبوخ ← cus Oboki
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The story

  1. Somali · derived fromOboki
  2. Afar · derived fromOboki
  3. cus · derived fromOboki
  4. Arabic · derived fromأوبوخ“Obukh”
  5. French · borrowed fromObock
  6. English todayObock

Borrowed from French Obock, from Arabic أوبوخ (“Obukh”), from Cushitic (Afar Oboki, Somali Oboki), the name of a local wadi.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.