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Mind your language

Did ‘haggis’ steal its name from thieving magpies?

27 April 2019

9:00 AM

27 April 2019

9:00 AM

Someone on The Kitchen Cabinet remarked that sambusa, as samosa is known in Somalia, came from Arabic. Perhaps it does, for the Hindi samosa, which we have borrowed for the fried triangles, comes from Persian sambose.

Loan words weave in and out of the routes of trade and cultural conquest between the Near East and the East Indies.

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