mashrabiyya

The story

1. Arabic · borrowed fromمَشْرَبِيَّة
2. French · borrowed frommoucharaby
3. English todaymashrabiyya

From French moucharaby, later reborrowed from its source, Arabic مَشْرَبِيَّة (mašrabiyya), from مِشْرَبَة (mišraba, “small jug”), from the water jars placed in it to provide evaporative cooling.

Words from the same roots

First known use, by meaning

• from 19th c. A balcony in North Africa enclosed with carved wooden latticework.