Chemistry name origin

The word كيميا is from Persian language, not Arabic. Wikipedia is changing history by making this big mistake.

This word is a pure Persian name. The word was commonly used by Persian alchemists (known as Kimiagar, Persian: کیمیاگر) in central Persia; Shiraz, Isfahan, Yazd, Kerman). Addition of 'gar' suffix at the end of this word comes from Persian grammar, meaning 'the person who does alchemy', not from Arabic grammar.

But the modern western society considers alchemy as a science-fictional sub-group of chemistry that deals with magic, witches and wizards. However in ancient Persia alchemists were those who tried to produce gold from copper, iron and bronze. Although they never succeeded, perhaps they were the first chemists who developed methods of combining different elements to make the first human made chemicals.

So the word chemistry is originated from those era and then introduced to Europeans by Arabs who had conquered the whole Persia, and also southern and eastern Europe. Perhaps Europeans thought that anything that came from the middle-east was Arabic.

Arabic letters have also been originated from Persia but as long as the current modern western society confuses Arabic with Persian letters, and also cannot distinguish the Persian history with Arabic history, they are creating this wrong information on Wikipedia.

In addition, in Arabic alphabets the letter 'G' does not exist and Arabs are not able to pronounce it, representing another evidence that this name is uniquely Persian. Arabic alphabet has four letters less than Persian alphabet; G, Zh, Ch and P.

Please visit the Persian Language version of the chemistry article on Wikipedia and ask somebody to translate it for you if you don't understand it, and also read the references. It is like you are saying because Chinese and Japanese letters look the same, all Chinese and Japanese history are also the same.