I knew that Dick Dale's surf classic "Misirlou" was based on a tune popular in the Mediterranean and Middle East, but I didn't know why it was so called.
Today I learned that:
it's derived from the Greek transliteration of the Turkish word "Mısırlı," which means "Egyptian." The suffix "lı" is added to denote a feminine noun, so "Misirlou" translates to "Egyptian woman".