How to say "apricot" in Arabic

Hebrew משמש and Arabic mishmish are visibly the same word, passed between the languages through Aramaic: Talmudic literature already knows the apricot as משמש, so this is no modern borrowing from Arabic, and where the word first arose is unclear. Don't mix this up with Arabic's other stone-fruit word, بَرْقُوق (barqūq, 'plum'): that one traces back to Byzantine Greek praikókkion, from Latin praecoquum, 'early-ripening', the same root that gave English apricot by way of Spanish albaricoque. مشمش is a separate, reduplicated word; its own deeper origin is unclear and is not part of that Greek chain.