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One way of creating new words is to borrow or take from other languages.

English has been taking  words from  :

 Latin. Greek,Frensh, Spanish,Arabic and Chinies….etc. Here some Arabic words:

Algebra ,Zero ,Alchemy Alcohol, Sugar,Cotton,  Coffee, Hakim,Jasimen, Magazine ,guide, racket , march, Tarif,,,,

Arsenal,orange,Jar,Apricot,Lemonade osque,Musk ,and some others

Take your turn and post words which you know ..,,

Is this word,mama, came from Chinese?

Hi gonly

there are more words from chinese like tea…......

oh ,yes . we have tea culture

hi

our culture consider importance the tea culture excessively

Morning:-)  

There are many….....

A good link about German words in English is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_expressions_in_English

I personnally missed  "diesel" (fuel).

Bye bye da-ru 

the languages are connected with eachother in a way.the tourists contribute about borrowing words into english language strongly,because they are travelling around all the world.they are carrying their approaches and the things they learn to the another countries.

I love the connections!  English is made of French, Latin, German, Celtic and a little of everything else.  For Arabic worlds, look out for that 'al' beginning.  Alchemy is one of my favourites.

Borrowing words isn't bad. You haven't word in your language you borrow. That is cool! Bath, what if you have word in your language? You borrow and then you have two words. Two words for same thing. Your children will hate you! They mast learn more words!

u are right .to tell the same thing with two different words seems to be superfluous,but u can think in that way if u use the same words perpetually,u can be bored of this process.to generate words can be enjoyable and u can develop  your memory thanks to word addition even for the same expression. thx for your comment to legolas

hi .. am Aribian..

borrowing words is very common in our country..

and .. as 4 me .. i use it alot ..

e.g :

taxi .. laptop.. computer .. mobile .. ok .. ect..

 and so many.

note: "banana" it's an Aribian word .. it root comes from Arab..

and its story comes from finger which is seemed banana .. which Arab called it " banan"

and because of that this words come 2 your country :)

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nice story ha !!

hope u enjoy it ..