Dev Shah, 14, won the 2023 Scripps Spelling Bee when he correctly spelled “psammophile”: a plant or animal adapted to live among sand. The word combines “psammos,” the Ancient Greek for “sand,” with “phile,” which means “lover” in the same language.
-Washington Post, June 2, 2023
I doubt that Dev Shah and KhairAllah have anything in common, but the boy cook Ibrahim and he would have a lot to talk about…phobias and philias…how one fears the sand blowing into his Asīda pot and how the other loves reading his dictionary. Would that Dev Shah and Ibrahim might both read Lane, who gives as a cognate of the noun Raml, Sand…Ta’ām [Food] Murammal [Into which Sand has been Thrown].