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I just can't believe that the word Arsenal came from Arabic word. The Arabic word which it originates is دَارُ الْصِنَاعَة / Darul Sinaa a'h which means "house of industry". I suspect it must has mean some kind of warehouse or storage of some engineering stuff. Some info from oxford dictionary :-
noun
Origin:
early 16th century (denoting a dock for the construction and repair of ships): from French, or from obsolete Italian arzanale, based on Arabic dār-aṣ-ṣinā‘a, from dār 'house' + al- '(of) the' + sinā‘a 'art, industry'
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