Yes, it does. It comes from northern Africa and was invented in the middle ages by an Arab. I am probably misspelling his name but it was something like al-gebar and it got shortened to algebra when it went European.
where does the word 'algebra' come from?
Elementary algebra
algebra is Arabic
algebra come from the study of general property of numbers perticularly the realnumbers
He did not really come up with algebra: he put together the thinking behind algebra in one book.
Arabic
Arabia.
Come Out With Your Pants Up is the answer to page 7.18 punchline algebra book A.
Algebra.
it came from Arabic.
The English word "algebra" is derived from an Arabic phrase usually transliterated as "al-jebra".
The basics come into use quite often, though you might not even realise you are using algebra.