The specific word "algebra" first appears in Latin, specifically medieval Latin. It's derived from an Arabic term "al jebr", though, if that's what you meant.
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it came from Arabic.
The word "algebra" came from the Arabic "al-jabr," meaning restoration. But algebra itself came earlier from India, the ancient Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese, and Egyptians.
Arabic, from al-jabr (الجبر) literally meaning restoration.
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