- from Old
French boras, bourras. That may have been from
Medieval Latin baurach (another
English spelling), borac(-/um/em), borax,
along with
Spanish borrax...
-
derived from
Persian بوره (burah). The
Arabic was
adapted as
Medieval Latin baurach, Anglo-Norman boreis, and
Middle English boras,
which became the source...
- Etymology: Via
Middle English boras, Anglo-Norman boreis,
Medieval Latin baurach, and
Arabic بورق báuraq;
ultimately from
Persian بره
burah or
Middle Persian...
- part of it from India. From
Arabic būraq,
Latin adopted the name
borax |
baurach in the 12th
century meaning borax for
fluxing metals, and
sometimes later...
