The story
- Arabic · derived fromلَبَخ
- English todaylebbek
Forsskål’s 1775 Flora Ægyptiaco-Arabica recorded the Arabic لَبَخ (labaḵ) as læbach, leæba (page 172), lebbek (page LI, LXXVII), which Willdenow’s 1797 edition of Linnæi Species plantarum made translingual as Acacia lebbeck.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.