The story
- Arabic · derived fromسَلُوقِيّ“greyhound”
- Arabic · derived fromسْلُوڭِي“greyhound”
- French · borrowed fromsloughi
- English todaysloughi
Borrowed from French sloughi, from dialectal Arabic سْلُوڭِي (slūgī, “greyhound”), from Arabic سَلُوقِيّ (salūqiyy, “greyhound”). Doublet of Saluki.
Words from the same roots
Arabicسَلُوقِيّ all →
Saluki
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.