An alternative spelling or dialectal variant of 'arghel' or similar botanical terms referring to certain plants.
From Arabic origins, variant spelling of arghel. This word represents transliteration variations of North African plant names that entered European languages through colonial contact.
Plant names from the Sahara region show how English borrowed from Arabic traders—these transliterations vary wildly because Arabic sounds don't map neatly onto English letters, making the same plant have multiple spellings.
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