The story
- Arabic · derived fromذِمِّيّ“a dhimmi”
- French · borrowed fromdhimmi
- English todaydhimmi
From French dhimmi, from Arabic ذِمِّيّ (ḏimmiyy, “a dhimmi”), from ذِمَّة (ḏimma, “protection, custody”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
dhimmi
Today it means: A protected and specially taxed non-Muslim subject of a state governed under dhimma, a form of social contract, in accordance with sharia law. Full definition →
French dhimmi ← Arabic ذِمِّيّ