The story
- Persian · borrowed fromکاک“biscuit, cookie, cake”
- Arabic · borrowed fromكَعْك“biscuit, cookie”
- English todaykaak
From Arabic كَعْك (kaʕk, “biscuit, cookie”) and Persian کاک (“biscuit, cookie, cake”). Likely a distant cognate with cake.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.