Alak
It’s National Wine Day! The word for wine or any alcoholic drink in the Philippine languages comes from an Arabic word that means “perspiration” or “distillate”!
ÁLAK • (AH-luhk)
wine, liquor, alcoholic drink
Tagálog (Filipino): álak
Etymology
From Arabic عرق (ʿaraq) which literally means “perspiration” or “distillate”, via Malay arak “alcoholic drink”. The Arabic word is the origin of the names of different distilled alcoholic drinks ranging from rakija in the Balkans to álak in the Philippines.
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