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To: imardmd1
Thanks imardmd1.

18 posted on 04/20/2020 7:29:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Or maybe the German Crusaders took ther term for a fortified military installation with them to the Holy Land, and Arabic borrowed the term from them? Or was the term an earlier Arabic one? (We need a philologist here on this issue.)


21 posted on 04/20/2020 8:03:33 AM PDT by imardmd1
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