The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἈλαβάρχης
- Latin · learned borrowing fromalabarches
- English todayalabarch
From Latin alabarches, more correctly arabarches, from Ancient Greek Ἀλαβάρχης (Alabárkhēs), more correctly Ἀραβάρχης (Arabárkhēs, “the prefect of the Arabian nome in Egypt, in Josephus appar. as in def.”), from Ἄραψ (Áraps) pl. Ἄρᾰβες (Árăbes, “Arabs”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “leader”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.