English
Zamzam
Zamzam comes from Arabic زَمْزَم.
- Arabicc. 500–presentزَمْزَمzamzam
- Englishearliest quotation 2025Zamzam
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Arabicc. 500–presentزَمْزَمzamzam
- Englishearliest quotation 2025Zamzam
Earliest quotation: 2025, Banu Mushtaq, The Shroud: “The water companies did not bring it in huge…”
Every English word from Arabic زَمْزَم
Today it means
name An Islamic holy well in Mecca, supposed to have been miraculously generated by Allah when Abraham's infant son Ishmael was crying for water.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic زَمْزَم / Zamzam