The word farang may have either originated from the Hindi word firangi (Devanāgarī: फिरंगी, "foreign"), a derogatory term for Europeans that was coined during British colonial rule in India, or from the Persian word farang () or farangī (), meaning "Frank, European".
According to Rashid al-din Fazl Allâh, farang comes from the Arabic word afranj [REF].