as artichoke. The word was eventually phono-semantically matched back into colloquial Levantine Arabic (for example in Syria and Lebanon) as ???? ???? (, consisting of ???? ( "earthly" and ???? ( "thorny".

Arabic has made use of phono-semantic matching to replace blatantly imported new terminology with a word derived from an existing triliteral root. Examples are:

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