The story
- Hebrew · derived fromצֹפֵן“hiding”
- Arabic · derived fromصَافِن
- Medieval Latin · borrowed fromsaphena
- English todaysaphena
From Medieval Latin saphena, from Arabic صَافِن (ṣāfin), from Hebrew צֹפֵן (ṣōfēn, “hiding”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.