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To close the circle back to Nepal: the Nepali liquor raksi etymologically derives from the Arabic liquor araq https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E... which spread far and wide in tandem with the expansion of Islam.



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