Biblical Hebrew Forum

[CS Bartholomew <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>]

On 4/4/04 10:46 AM, "Awohili AT aol.com" <Awohili AT aol.com> wrote:

> Since the Turks have a long Islamic history, it is possibly from Arabic via
> Hebrew.  The Qur'an calls the first man "Adam" just like the Hebrew Bible.

Thank you Solomon,

Arabic was my first guess but looking at K&B under )DM they listed Ug.,
Akk., Eth., Arb., Ph., ... so I thought this word might actually predate the
Islamic period in Turkish.

But you are probably right, Arabic is the most logical source.


greetings,
Clay Bartholomew