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Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 17
“abaka”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
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Etymology
Borrowed from Arabicأَبَق(ʔabaq, “abaca”), from Classical Syriacܐܳܦܰܩܬܳܐ(ʾāpaqtā), ܐܰܦܩܰܥܬܳܐ(ʾap̄qaʿtā, “de-seeded cotton”). According to Potet (2013), Muslim marine merchants imposed their term on their suppliers so that native terms died out in the Philippines.