The story
- Arabic · borrowed fromجالُوت
- English todaygaloot
From Quranic Arabic جالُوت (jālūt, pronounced galūt in Egyptian Arabic), proper name equivalent to English Goliath, giant warrior of the ancient Philistine ethnicity; cf. connotations of derogatory uses of English Philistine. Doublet of goliath.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.