An archaic or regional term of uncertain precise meaning, possibly relating to plants or materials.
Origin unclear; may derive from Arabic or Persian historical sources, but definitive etymology remains uncertain in modern scholarship.
Words like 'altumal' remind us that English borrowed heavily from Arabic and Persian during the medieval period, but some terms vanished from use and now only appear in old manuscripts.
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