Wasn’t actually today, but it’s an interesting etymology. Old Arabian speaks “majus” because they lack a hard G sound, similar to Japanese lacking L sound
Also, for anyone interested, that means that the Magi who came to Jesus’ birth with gifts were Zoroastrian priests
Zoroastrianism is centered around the Persian language, not Arabic. Persian is a Indo European language like Sanskrit, English, Celtic, and Russian instead of Afro-Asiatic like Arabic. That’s why so n many magic associated words have the same PIE root *magh- Its root concept is to have power to enforce will.