Levantyne

 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:

 Levantine etymology for the week:  كزدرة (kazdara), to stroll, comes from Ottoman Turkish كزدرمك (gezdirmek). Photo generated by AI Source:  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B2%D8%AF%D8%B1

Levantine “boseh”/بوسة = kiss comes from Persian بوسه (buse) Photo generated by AI Source:  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A9

In Jordan/Palestine, اسفين means someone telling the boss something bad you have done behind your back. Et tu, Brute?  حتى أنت يا بروتس؟   Και σύ, τέκνον Βροῦτε; Image source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_tu,_Brute%3F اسفين apparently comes from Ancient Greek σφήν (sphen) Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86