Levantyne

 I was reading the other day a book by Saint John of Damascus when I came across the word κανών (kanon) which meant law, so I looked the etymology of the Arabic word قانون (Kanoon) and it turns out it comes from Ancient Greek κανών, same for latin Canon. Generated by AI, prompt: Greek Law

 The last thing I would expect that بلغم/balgham comes from Ancient Greek! It does! It comes from φλέγμα (phlégma, “phlegm, a cold slimy humour of the body”). Generated by AI: better something Ancient Greek than balgham for a blogpost photo Source: wiktionary

 The word comes from Italian Comodino.  This is not the only Italian furniture word in Levantine.  Source: wiktionary.

 While reading the book "Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History" I found out that قيراط/Kirat comes from Ancient Greek κεράτιον (kerátion) which was used during Roman days and continued in Byzantine and Islamic Empires days up to this day. 

 Well, the shocking part is that both are originally: Roman! فلس/ فلوس comes from Ancient Greek φόλλις (phóllis), from Latin follis, used during Roman and Byzantine times  دينار comes from Ancient Greek δηνάριον (dēnárion), from Latin dēnārius, used during Roman times. Source for etymology: wikipedia and wiktionary

  Levantine etymology for the week: While going through this book قدام (oddam): comes from Aramaic (qd̠ām, qŭd̠ām) برضه (bardo): comes from Ottoman Turkish بر ده (bir de) بلكي (balk): From Ottoman Turkish ⁧بلكه⁩ (belki, “maybe”), from Persian ⁧بلکه⁩ (balke, “but”).

Northern Palestinian Etymology for the day:  اشكرى (Ashkara) which means “obviously”, comes from Persian آشکار (âšikâr).  Here is an Ashkara song by a band from Nazareth called Ghazall: