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- Arabic · calque ofعَيْن الْبَقَر
- English todayoxeye
From ox + eye. Apparently in some senses, specifically Buphthalmum, translated from Arabic عَيْن الْبَقَر (ʕayn al-baqar, literally “ox-eye”), as also the case for French œil-de-bœuf.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.