Oasis
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early 17th century: via late Latin from Greek, apparently of Egyptian origin.
wiktionary
From Late Latin Oasis, from Ancient Greek Ὄασις(Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt(“oasis, cauldron”),
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Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ(ouahe) and Arabic وَاحَة (wāḥa).
etymonline
oasis (n.)
"fertile spot in a desert, where there is a spring or well and more or less vegetation," originally in reference to the Libyan desert, 1610s, from French oasis (18c.) and directly from Late Latin oasis, from Greek oasis, probably from Hamitic (compare Coptic wahe, ouahe "oasis," properly "dwelling place," from ouih "dwell"). The same Egyptian source produced Arabic wahah. Figurative sense of "any fertile place in the midst of a waste" is by 1800.
