abarca/abarka/alpargata

[Rick Mc Callister]

	That would be ghayn

	For the form alpargata, I'd also wonder if it ended in ta
marbuta--which is /h/ in Levantine Arabic but was once /t/

	If I can remember to trudge to the library to check Wehr, I'll see
if there's anything like b-r-gh or b-r-gh-t [ta marbuta]

[snip]

>According to Agud and Tovar, the Arabic word in question is recorded
>both as <barga> and as <parga>, with a dot over the <g> whose
>significance is unknown to me.

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