The story
- Arabic · derived fromنَقَّارَة“small drum”
- Portuguese · derived fromnacarado
- French · borrowed fromnacarat
- English todaynacarat
Borrowed from French nacarat, from Spanish or Portuguese nacarado, ultimately derived from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra, “small drum”), from نَقَرَ (naqara, “to hollow out”). Related to English nacre, English naqareh and nagada.
Words from the same roots
Arabicنَقَّارَة all →
nacrenagaranakernaqareh
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.