The story
- Persian · derived fromزنگ“East Africa”
- Arabic · borrowed fromزَنْج“The East African coastlands”
- English todayZanj
Borrowed from Arabic زَنْج (zanj, “The East African coastlands”), from Persian زنگ (zang, “East Africa”) or its Middle Persian etymon; see the Persian entry for more.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.