- ????Phoenician/ Phoenice =فينيقي
- ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- Phoenician (n.)
- late 14c., from M.Fr. phenicien, from L. Phoenice, from Gk. Phoinike "Phoenicia" (including Carthage), perhaps lit. "land of the purple" (i.e., source of purple dye, the earliest use of which was ascribed to the Phoenicians by the Greeks). Identical with phoenix (q.v.), but the relationship is obscure. In reference to a language from 1836; as an adjective from c.1600.
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