Word Origin Summary

Καρχαρίας is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• carcharias

  Latin · borrowed from

• Carcharodon carcharias

  Translingual · derived from

• ghersh

  English · derived from

• καρχαρίας

  Greek · inherited from

• قرش

  Arabic · borrowed from

• Carcharhinus

  Translingual · derived from

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