[Sca-cooks] OOP, OT Ferengi

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Someone wondered about the Star Trek word "ferengi"... sounded like
"foreigner" in some language... maybe... but which?

I suspect whoever was thinking of "faranji",sometimes written
"farangi", but always pronounced as if it's a "j", since there's no
hard "g" in Arabic.

It comes from the Arabic word for "Frank", who attacked the Levant
during what the Europeans call "Crusades". Thus all foreign Europeans
came to be called "faranji".

Anahita