de Paliacate is a partial calque of French mouchoirs de Paliacate (1788). The Real Academia Española (Spanish Royal Academy) notes that Paliacate comes from the Nahuatl language. Pal: colour Yacatl: nose. paria= pariah, outcast: from Tamil paraiyan "pariah," literally "one who plays the drum," (the pariahs of south India were originally a caste of Untouchables that played drums ), from parai drum, possibly from parāi to speak. Egyptian aciago = unhappy, sad: probably from Latin aegyptius dies, "Egyptian day," from Ancient Greek Aigyptiakos (Αιγυπτιακός) "Egyptian" (adjective), from Aigyptos, see egipcio below. barca = boat, launch, barge: from Late Latin barca, from Ancient Greek báris "flat-bottomed boat, launch" of Egyptian origin. barco= boat, ship: from barca, see barca above copto= a Copt, the Coptic language: from Arabic qubt, qibt, "Copts," from Coptic , "an Egyptian," from Ancient Greek Aigýptios "Egyptian" (adjective), see egipcio below egipcio = an Egyptian, of Egypt: from Latin Aegyptius, from Aígyptus "Egypt," from Ancient Greek Aigyptos, from regional Egyptian Hikuptah, variant of Egyptian Hat-kaptah, one of the ancient names of Memphis, Egypt. embarcar = to embark, to board a ship: from Late Latin imbarcare, from in- + barca, see barca above gitano= a Gitano, a Gypsy: from Medieval Latin '*Aegyptanus, from Latin Aegyptus, see egipcio above. papel = paper: from Catalán paper, from Latin papyrus, "paper, papyrus," see papiro below papiro= papyrus: from Latin papyrus, from Ancient Greek pápyros, "papyrus," possibly of Egyptian origin. Greek Hungarian coche = car: originally, a carriage pulled by two horses, ultimately from Hungarian kocsi "carriage, cart," short for kocsi szekér "carriage of Kócs," Hungarian city where carriages with suspension were first made. sable = a sabre/saber (see spelling differences): from Old High German sabel, probably derived from Hungarian szablya (1393), literally "tool to cut with," from szabni "to cut." Japanese caqui = Diospyros plant, and its fruit, the persimmon: from Japanese kaki. quimono = kimono: from Japanese kimono literally "thing to be put on," from ki "to put on, wear," + mono "thing, person." Ligurian hoz = sickle: from Latin falx "sickle, scythe," possibly from Ligurian. For the change from f in falx to h in h'''oz see here. Mongolian = a Mongol: from Mongolian Mongol "a Mongol," documented first in Chinese měng-kǔ, from uncertain source. kan/jan = khan, an honorific title from Turko-Mongol Persian Aside from the fact that Persian words entered thru Latin, other words of Persian origin transmitted