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a) Jaundice (from Arabic yarqaan)
c) A shaman in training. From the Tungus yoraq, son-in-law
d) Anglicized from the Bedouin "uareg"; desert terrain where the wind moves shallow dunes across rock
From Arabic, into English. Hmmmmm….



This would be all well and good, but Tungus is (maybe) an Altaic language spoken in Siberia and totally unrelated to any Semitic language. It is, in fact, the language from which we got shaman (not the original language that spawned the word in the first place, but who's counting?) according to the AHD.