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Hindustan Times Amritsar
|May 25, 2025
Here are some words so simple, it is possible they will never mean anything else: pain, rain, love.
More complex terms can have quite the journey, nodding backwards, eternally, to their complicated and often-distant roots. Let's start with one of my favourites.
The Arabic "al-kuhul" was originally "a powder used to darken the eyelids". This, of course, is where we get the word kohl. But, in laboratories of the time, the term began to be used to refer to any fine powder.
This story is from the May 25, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Amritsar.
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