Etymology

ma'ruf

Today it means: A vowel phoneme that is phonemically equivalent to a vowel in Classical Arabic. Full definition →

Classical Persian مَعْرُوف ← Arabic مَعْرُوف
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromمَعْرُوف“known”
  2. Classical Persian · borrowed fromمَعْرُوف“famous”
  3. English todayma'ruf

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَعْرُوف (ma'rūf, “famous”), from Arabic مَعْرُوف (maʕrūf, “known”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.