Talk:Fech fech

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[edit] Etymology

If anybody knows whether the word is indeed of Arabic origin or not, please edit the article accordingly.

It was me who perhaps wrongly assumed this European word to be a direct import from Arabic, Berber or another Semitic language, and then added the "Arabic [script, not necessarily language] needed" tag here. I guess it just looked too “Arabic” to me.

When I had found the spelling ‹fesh fesh› somewhere, I entered “فش‎” in a search engine, together with Qattara in Arabic script. I don't understand Arabic, but the poor results seemed to suggest that either the word isn't used in Arabic, or I had a vowel missing or otherwise used the wrong letters in my blind, uninformed guess, so I decided to use the template to call for help. Wikipeditor 00:19, 10 January 2007 (UTC)