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zenith comes from the very same root! it came from arabic to old spanish as zenit, and the to french, and finally english!
azimuth, comes from the plural (as Dr bill posted) zenith comes from the singular, samt (path) arras--it is the samt that give english zenith.
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Another Arabic word
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