Wednesday 14 November 2012

aloe=الألوة

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aloe=   الألوه نبات  ,  الألوة
WIKIPEDIA: Aloe /ˈæl/, also Aloë, is a genus containing about 500 species of flowering succulent plants. The most common and well known of these is Aloe vera, or "true aloe".

 The Ancient Greeks and Romans used aloe vera to treat wounds.

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
aloe (n.)
O.E. alewe "fragrant resin of an East Indian tree," a Biblical usage, from L. aloe, from Gk. aloe, translating Hebrew ahalim (plural, perhaps ultimately from a Dravidian language). The Greek word probably was chosen for resemblance of sound to the Hebrew, because the Greek and Latin words referred originally to a genus of plants with spiky flowers and bitter juice, used as a purgative drug, a sense which appeared in English late 14c. The word was then misapplied to the American agave plant in 1680s. The "true aloe" consequently is called aloe vera.

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