buffalo=بوفالو

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buffalo=بوفالو 

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY

buffalo (n.)

1580s (earlier buffel, 1510s, from Middle French), from Portuguese bufalo "water buffalo," from Latin bufalus, variant of bubalus "wild ox," from Greek boubalos "buffalo," originally a kind of African antelope, later used of a type of domesticated ox in southern Asia and the Mediterranean lands, from bous "ox, cow" (see cow (n.)). Wrongly applied since 1630s to the American bison. Buffalo gnat is recorded from 1822.

 

The Arabic word seems to derive from the English word “buffalo” which according to BABINIOTIS derives from the ancient Greek “βους/βούβαλος” (vous/vouvalos).

BABINIOTIS

""Κι όμως είναι ελληνικές· ετυμολογική εξέταση λέξεων της Αγγλικής""

""Το «πολύ αμερικάνικο» buffalo από το ελλην. βούβαλος.""