An interesting article from The Costa Rica News: https://thecostaricanews.com/spiritual-consequences-alcohol-consumption/
not a surprise that quite a lot of words in use in English today have their origins in the 'cradle of civilisation' from which the Arabic language evolved. There is quite a lot of words in use in English that come from Arabic. Some of them sound French or Italian, but that is just the route they took coming into the Romance and then Germanic languages like English. Apart from the obvious ones like 'harem' , 'mecca', 'sheikh' and 'caravan', etc that have some connotation, even today, with the near east, there is a lot of others that you wouldn't normally associate in that context, including quite a few scientific and mathematical words, like algorithim alkali average candy cheque chemistry cork jar garbage hazard lacrame magazine monsoon macabre mafia massage nadir orange ream serendipity sofa sugar syrup talisman tariff traffic tuna typhoon zero
